More than ten US airlines expressed in a statement yesterday (17) concern about the potential "Chaos” which may result from the presence of ultra-fast 5G mobile internet technology near airports, informs the France Press Agency.
"Immediate intervention is required to prevent major operational disruption to passengers, carriers, supply chains and the supply of essential medical products🇧🇷 can be read in the official statement delivered to the country's authorities.
This appeal by airlines comes two days after the 5G service began operating in the US, and where the US air sector is concerned about the consequences of 5G on planes due to possible disruptions to on-board instruments.
"Itn a day like yesterday (Sunday), more than 1.100 flights and XNUMX passengers would be subject to cancellations, diversions or delays“, informed the leaders of the carriers American Airlines, Delta and Southwest, as well as the airline divisions of the distribution conglomerates FedEx and UPS.
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"Considering the short time remaining and the importance of this completely preventable economic calamity, we respectfully ask that you support and take all necessary actions for 5G to be developed, with the exception of when towers are placed too close to airport runways“, they wrote, in the letter addressed to the federal government, to the aviation safety agency (FAA, in its acronym in English) and also to the telecommunications regulator (FCC).
In short, these leaders also want a break, "until the FAA can determine how development can be safely accomplished without catastrophic disruption".
To inform that at the beginning of the year, as our editors had already informed, US mobile phone operators, namely Verizon and AT&T, had rejected a request by the US Government to postpone the entry into operation of their new frequency bands again 5G, due to airline industry concerns.
On the other hand, through their Federation Airlines 4 America, they threatened to sue the telecommunications conglomerates AT&T and Verizon to obtain this postponement and the technical modifications in the development of this latest generation of ultra-fast mobile internet.
The 3,7-3,8 GHz frequency bands were awarded to AT&T and Verizon in February 2021 after an auction worth several tens of billions of dollars.
