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Ajit Pai and Tom Wheeler agree: The FAA is behaving badly in battle against FCC
Six former chairs of the Federal Communications Commission yesterday criticized the Federal Aviation Administration's fight against a new 5G rollout on spectrum that the FCC has studied and deemed safe to use. Republicans Ajit Pai and Michael Powell joined with Democrats Tom Wheeler, Mignon Clyburn, Julius Genachowski, and Michael Copps in writing a letter describing their concerns about how the FAA has tried to undermine public confidence in the FCC's decision-making process. (arstechnica.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
If there is any chance the 5G could create a safety concern to aviation then I expect the FAA to make sure all concerns are adressed.
When the money changers are in the church then no one is safe.
Both agencies have functional and credibility issues. Many of them are legacy and many more related to more recent history. BUT, the real issues in this particular question are both technical and potentially life-threatening. They, therefore, need to be addressed by knowledgeable practitioners of the RF arts not the court of public opinion. As a veteran of both FAR battles and bandwidth wars, I have fairly high confidence a reasonable solution can be found, and a near certainty the optimum solution will not.
I'm still trying to figure out why the huge push for 5G, I can't figure it out!
The "less interference and blazing speed" applies to the 20-30 GHz band requiring high density micro-cells that will initially appear only in high population areas. The build-out will take years to decades. So telecom convinced the FCC stop-gap 5G expansion is needed in lower bands providing only modest speed increases. Why? To be able to sell the excruciatingly expensive smart phones that are 5G capable. In order to "Grab" and auction the needed valuable spectrum FCC has been relocating other services at serious expense (both time and dollars) to those services. Hence the friction. While this is not a trivial national economic issue, the FCC has been tone-"hard-of-hearing" to safety concerns about their spectrum reallocation. Some FCC Leaders are likely destined for rewarding jobs in telecom and face no legal jeopardy for their decisions. So it only requires following the money.
The last sentence says it all. The accuracy of NWS forecasts are also possibly jeopardized by 5G.
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Ironically, one is less interference.
5G has shorter reach, so the transmissions are more local, and devices will have to deal with less crosstalk.
The higher transmissions rates are also nice.
5G has shorter reach, so the transmissions are more local, and devices will have to deal with less crosstalk.
The higher transmissions rates are also nice.