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The mobile carriers are declining a request by the FAA for a two-week delay in the launch of 5G service.
The FCC auctioned the rights to use the so-called "C-band" frequencies for nearly $70 billion. The new spectrum will allow for ultra-fast 5G in certain areas and slower 5G in other areas, but it will also provide in-between performance over much wider areas. T-Mobile uses mid-band spectrum that is not in the C-band.
No more delays for #5G in C-band! We can have safe flights. People should accept that the US wireless industry does not have more limitations than France.
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The CEOs of AT&T and Verizon rejected the U.S. request for a delay in 5G deployment.
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Mike O'Rielly is on January 2, 2022.
The FAA Administrator and the US transportation secretary sent a letter to the CEOs of AT&T and Verizon on Friday asking them to delay their commercial deployment. The air travel regulators said they would use that time to identify priority airports, notify flights, and line up alternate methods of compliance.
The companies agreed to reduce the power of their signals in exchange for a 30-day delay, but they did not agree to use the C-band spectrum to expand their 5G services. The FAA and the aviation industry need to be committed to doing the same without escalating their grievances, as they are in other venues.
They say that in the letter.
On New Year's Eve, just five days before the C-Band spectrum will be deployed, we received your letter asking us to take more voluntary steps to assist our millions of consumer, business and government customers.
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The framework asks us to transfer oversight of our companies' multi-billion dollar investment in 50 unnamed metropolitan areas to the FAA for an unknown number of months or years. Even worse, the proposal is only for two companies and excludes all other companies and industries within the purview of the FCC.
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We will volunteer to alter our use of the C-Band spectrum during the same six-month period if the FAA decides that the voluntary limits should be relaxed sooner. For six months, until July 5, 2022, we will adopt the same C-band radio exclusion zones that are already in use in France, with slight adaptation to reflect the modest technical differences in how C-band is being deployed in the two countries. The approach is one of the most conservative in the world and would include extensive exclusion zones around the runways. The effect would be to further reduce the C-band signal levels by at least 10 times on the runway or during the last mile of final approach and the first mile after takeoff.
FCC commissioner Mike O'Reilly said that we can have safe wireless and safe flights. People should accept that the US wireless industry has more limitations than France.
According to the FAA, guided landing systems for aircraft could be limited due to concerns that the 5G signal could interfere with the accuracy of an airplane's radio altimeter. The bands are close enough that the fear exists, even though 5G and the radio altimeters don't actually operate in the same band.
Airlines for America, the trade group that represents American Airlines, Delta, FedEx, and others, has threatened to go to court if the FCC does not take action on the 5G roll out.
The FAA is reviewing the latest letter from the wireless companies on how to mitigate interference from 5G C-band transmissions. The U.S. aviation safety standards will guide our actions.
The letter from the CEOs of AT&T was added January 2nd.
