{"id":25946,"date":"2021-12-10T17:06:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T22:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25946"},"modified":"2021-12-10T17:45:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T22:45:21","slug":"aviation-industry-and-faa-continue-to-needlessly-fight-u-s-5g-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25946\/aviation-industry-and-faa-continue-to-needlessly-fight-u-s-5g-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"Aviation Industry and FAA Continue to Needlessly Fight U.S. 5G Rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently sounded the alarm<\/a>\u00a0on how the domestic aviation industry and overly-protective Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are unreasonably fighting deployment of super-fast 5G wireless service here in the U.S.:<\/p>\n

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The FAA\u2019s immediate complaint centers on middle frequency C-Band spectrum, which is crucial to the full deployment of 5G in the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency with the actual expertise and experience necessary to decide spectrum issues such as this, has spent years studying the potential for 5G interference with aviation and has determined that establishing a 220 megahertz \u201cguard band\u201d around the portion of the C-Band aircraft use will more than protect them.\u00a0 The FAA has nevertheless decided to intervene in an area outside of its expertise, and contests the FCC\u2019s determination.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We further emphasized how there’s zero experience or substantive evidence to suggest any interferrence threat they are claiming.\u00a0 5G base stations are already in place in the U.S. and 40 other countries, with no incidents of interference.\u00a0 Any threat would’ve become evident by now.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, wireless companies AT&T and Verizon offered compromises<\/a> to resolve this needless standoff, limiting some of their 5G wireless services for 6 months to allow regulators to review the data that confirms no threat to aviation service.\u00a0 The FCC itself called the carriers’ compromise “one of the most comprehensive efforts in the world to safeguard aviation technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n

But apparently even that’s not enough, as reported by Reuters:<\/p>\n

The U.S. aviation industry said on Monday new precautionary measures offered by AT&T and Verizon Communications were insufficient to address air safety concerns raised by the planned use of C-Band spectrum for 5G wireless.\u00a0 The Aerospace Industries Association said in a letter to Federal Communications Commission chair Jessica Rosenworcel that the telecom plans ‘are inadequate and far too narrow to ensure the safety and economic vitality of the aviation industry.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, when it comes to 5G <\/span>deployment, nothing will satisfy the FAA, which <\/span>continues to be more concerned with protecting its bureaucratic turf by erecting dubious hurdles than allowing the launch of critical U.S. 5G networks.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Every additional delay of this sort places us at a greater and greater disadvantage versus China, which presses forward without this sort of bureaucratic turf warfare.\u00a0 American consumers, elected leaders and government officials mustn’t tolerate this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We recently sounded the alarm\u00a0on how the domestic aviation industry and overly-protective Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are unreasonably fighting deployment of super-fast 5G wireless service here in the U.S.: The FAA\u2019s immediate complaint centers on middle frequency C-Band spectrum, which is crucial to the full deployment of 5G in the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0 The Federal Communications Commission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5022,3657,188,3566,2573],"class_list":["post-25946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-5g","tag-faa","tag-fcc","tag-federal-aviation-administration","tag-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25946"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25952,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946\/revisions\/25952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}