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john: verizon and at&t delaying the launch of the 5g technology on some towers near major airports after ten airline executives said it could ground planes and cause chaos. some flights are being delayed from coming into the united states. we thought the f.a. an and f.c.c. would have worked this out by now. and now you have three companies cancelling some flights into the u.s. because of the clumsy rollout of the 5g technology. it was given space on the bandwidth for the signal and given the location of the space on its bandwidth it has the ability to potentially interfere with radio altimiters. ....
Interfere with aircraft communications. i read to you from the petition that the airline trade group has filed saying that aircraft will not be able to rely on radio altimiters and thus will not be able to land at certain airports. we watch an american flight take off here, it will be fouled by the new 5g. carriers say no, we are going to do it anyway. we ll see, sandra. sandra: i mean, can we just add one more thing to the list? travelling is not pleasant right now. what is next, i can t tell you how many families i ve spoken to over the holidays who decided to pack up the family minivan or suv and just drive wherever they were going, yeah. just to avoid all this. jeff, thank you. a chilly 30° in philadelphia, thank you. ....
Verizon and AT&T are hoping new swaths of C-band cellular radio spectrum will help make the 5G hype closer to reality, but the big mid-band 5G rollout may have a side effect. Airplanes rely on radio altimeters to tell how high they are above the ground to safely land when pilots can’t see, and the FAA is now instructing 6,834 of them to not do that at certain airports because of 5G interference. ....