risking the safety potentially ofty o passengers. the faa has warned that 5g antennas your airports couldde disrupt altitude sensors on board flights s. lance ulanoff is the u.s. editor in chief of tech radar. he joins us to assess. thanks so much for coming on . this is one of those topics it s hard for nonexperts to figure out. do you think there s 5g threats to commercial aviation ? i honestly don t know, but it s certainly been a concern since almost the moment that at&t and verizon signed the dotted line and basicallyat spent about 70 billion dollars for the five g c band. me so the first thing that consumers ought to know is that it s not their five gno phones. you know,us we a lot of us have five g phones right now. that s not the problem. it s the antenna. soso if you re on a plane, ifyo you turn to airplane mode, that s not going to make a difference. the towers are there to providing the five g c band signal and this is what the airlines, the faa have been concerned about and
and verizon for months about at&t. ti verizon have said we ve given you all the time you need to upgrade your equipmentt. we ve delayed multiple times. we want to, w go so back in november during this whole thing, they actually agreedd to lower the power of the antennas near airports sort that if there was any potential of them interfering with altimeters, they wouldn t doterf that apparently wasn t enough and they were asked again in the beginning of january this month to pleaseg of delay t first they said no, both of them at&t verizon said no and then they said okay. and they delayed for another two weeks. ow and basically tomorrow was the big day, the day they were going to light it up and that sy today the airlines, the big boysai, delta and americannd airlines and some of the supply chain people, fedex and us airways all sent a letterng saying this is going to cause chaos. don t turn it on . don t do it. we didn t hear anything from at&t and verizon for a little while until today.
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