{"id":25955,"date":"2021-12-22T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25955"},"modified":"2021-12-22T09:35:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:35:43","slug":"aeis-bret-swanson-the-federal-aviation-administrations-embarrassing-attempt-to-put-5g-wireless-on-airplane-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25955\/aeis-bret-swanson-the-federal-aviation-administrations-embarrassing-attempt-to-put-5g-wireless-on-airplane-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"AEI’s Bret Swanson: “The Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s Embarrassing Attempt to Put 5G Wireless on \u2018Airplane Mode\u2019”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent months CFIF has highlighted the destructive way in which the aviation industry and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continue to unreasonably oppose<\/a> deployment of super-fast 5G wireless in the U.S., placing us at an alarming technological and economic disadvantage globally.<\/p>\n

Our friend Bret Swanson<\/a> at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) just added his own expert perspective<\/a> of the needless delay due to the FAA’s laughable suggestion that “planes might fall from the sky”:<\/p>\n

Nearly 40 nations already have networks operating in the mobile C-band frequencies, and planes are doing just fine<\/a>.\u00a0 What\u2019s more is that the US has an extra layer of protection in the form of a wider guard band \u2014 more than 200 MHz of empty space between the mobile radio and airplane frequencies.\u00a0 This safety buffer is far more than most nations employ.\u00a0 The US military also employs radar technologies close to the altimeter band that pump out radio waves at 10,000 times the power of the commercial mobile C-band radios.\u00a0 Again, no problems.<\/p>\n

The wireless and aviation industries \u2014 and their regulators \u2014 have discussed these technical matters for years, and the resolution enshrined in the FCC\u2019s C-band auction rules was more than sensible.\u00a0 The aviation industry has even been boasting<\/a> about the possibilities 5G wireless will bring to flight operations.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Swanson adds an interesting note on the potential cronyism and territorialism that may explain this stubborn opposition:<\/p>\n

Many seasoned observers think<\/a> the aviation industry is really looking for Washington (i.e., taxpayers) to buy them new altimeters to replace the old ones now operating in most of the fleet.\u00a0 Delay 5G with scary ‘falling planes’ rhetoric, then back off when the new equipment is promised.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He concludes by nicely summarizing what’s at stake here:<\/p>\n

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Delays aren\u2019t free, however.\u00a0 5G is now, with the internet, a fundamental platform for the entire economy.\u00a0 Delays in the most important component of 5G \u2014 this huge addition of new spectrum and thus capacity and capability \u2014 would push back all kinds of economic activity in smartphones, transportation, smart infrastructure, advanced manufacturing and construction, and much more.\u00a0 The FAA\u2019s antics also threaten to upend well-functioning spectrum auctions and investment incentives…\u00a0 The mobile internet has been the most powerful and successful<\/a> facet of the US economy over the last decade.\u00a0 Putting 5G on ‘airplane mode’<\/a> would be economically devastating.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well said, and hopefully the relevant authorities take heed of Swanson’s warning sooner rather than later…<\/p>\n

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