They claim that more than 100,000 passengers could be affected in a single day. 🤔 engineering
, the CEOs of several passenger and cargo airlines in the United States, including Delta, United, and Southwest Airlines, warned that signals from the two companies' new C-Band 5G cell towers could interfere with navigation and safety equipment on their planes.
The airline executives said that urgent action is required and that AT&T and Verizon should not activate any 5G towers within 2 miles of any of the country's busiest airports. The letter states that 5G should be"deployed except when towers are too close to airport runways until the FAA can determine how that can be safely accomplished without catastrophic disruption.
to buy the C-Band spectrum required for their 5G services from the Federal Communications Commission . In November, last year, those companies agreed to delay the activation of their services so the FAA could properly address aviation interference concerns. Another two-week delay was announced on January 4., the CEO of U.S.-based wireless industry group CTIA, Meredith Attwell Baker, stated that a further delay to the rollout of 5G"will cause real harm.