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United Airlines issued a warning.
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The CEOs of major US airlines have warned that the deployment of new 5G spectrum on Wednesday could cause catastrophic disruption for flights across the country. The CEOs of the shipping companies that signed the warning sent a letter to the airlines that said that both commercial and cargo flights could be affected.
The letter was sent to the FCC, the FAA, and the White House National Economic Council.
The C-band 5G spectrum is due to go live on January 19th, after being delayed multiple times. Russell Brandom explained earlier this month that the new C-band airwaves could interfere with radar altimeters on certain aircraft. A fatal 2009 Turkish Airlines crash was linked to failures in the gis system.
The airlines wrote in their letter that the manufacturers have told them that there are huge swaths of the operating fleet that may need to be indefinitely grounded because of the new 5G deployment. There is a need for immediate intervention to avoid significant operational disruption to air passengers, shippers, supply chain and delivery of needed medical supplies that could cause chaos and strand tens of thousands of Americans overseas.
The 5G signals could interfere with the safety equipment that pilots rely on to take off and land in bad weather, according to United Airlines. Without more safeguards, the roll out of this 5G spectrum could result in restrictions on some types of aircraft in major cities, and cause hundreds of thousands of flight cancelations and disruptions for customers across the industry.
The 5G signals could interfere with the safety equipment.
Airlines are worried that older equipment in some planes might still be affected by the new 5G spectrum because there is only 220MHz of clearance between the spectrum used by the plane's equipment and the new 5G spectrum. The C-band was supposed to be rolled out last December but was delayed due to air safety concerns.
United is calling for 5G to be implemented in every place in the country on January 19 except at airports that have runways. The size of the buffer could be reduced after further analysis by the FAA. buffer zones around 50 airports were agreed to by AT&T and Verizon on January 3rd.
According to one tech trade group, C-band spectrum has been rolled out in nearly 40 countries without causing problems, and United says the right government policies could allow for a safe deployment in the US.
AT&T and Verizon paid $65 billion for the new spectrum in an auction last year. Both need the extra spectrum to handle the traffic demands of 5G, especially since AT&T plans to shut down its 3G network next month.
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