rollout near certain airports. we don t know for how long and we also don t know which airports. in a statement though, at&t calls out faa and the aviation industry for not acting on this fast enough. this was already delayed once. now this is coming at the 11th hour. in a statement at&t says the faa and the aviation industry did not utilize two years they had to responsibly plan for this deployment, so a lot of frustration from the telecom industry against the aviation industry. it s been a big back and forth here. we know that the white house interceded today. there were meeting today between the biden administration, the department of transportation, faa, fcc, aviation groups, electronics manufacturers as well, and we know those all centered on trying to build a buffer zone like what at&t is describing here keeping those towers either turned off or at a lower power near the critical moments right before an airplane meets the runway, so this is a
just like your old radio dial. if you re trying to tune in 400 and the and you know 59gy spectrum from the telephone is using 3.7, you did get interference. now what the faa has to do is make sure that the aircraft equipment and the federal aviation administration equipment can properly screen out close but not exact signals, and that should solve the problem. france dealt with this by just simply excluding many so of the 5g neither airports but the reason it s so much worse in the united states is we have, you know, thousands more airports, and many times more the air traffic. in japan they have a few major airport to deal with. in our country we have thousands. and, pete, i know i looked at my phone as soon as i saw this news and i saw i have 5g service right now so a lot of people may be wondering i thought we already got 5g. how does this, if at all, impact
pretty big development on this coming at a very late stage with this deployment only around the corner. ana? mary, obviously other countries have already figured out how to handle this situation, countries like japan, for example, already have 5g, so why are we here right now? shouldn t this all have been dealt with a while ago? absolutely it should have been dealt with a while ago. i like to describe this as the overnight emergency that was two decades in the making. you know, the problem is at several points along the way, airlines, boeing, others did sound the alarm. most particularly the alarm bells were sounding as early as 2018 exactly on this subject, but the department of transportation, the fcc were in a standoff. they were back and forth with each oh, but at the critical moment, the fcc said it didn t have in its records the federal aviation administration objections. they blamed it on a clerical error, but, you know, this has been known for some time, and as
pete correctly, you know, laid this out for everybody but in layman s terms what, could be compromised is the aircraft knowing its altitude, how high is up, and so this affects not only air traffic separation, instrument landings, also one of the most important safety features we have which is ground proximity warring, how close are you to terrain or other obstacles, so it s a big deal. we never should have been put in this last-minute position, and, remember, it was the united states government that auctioned off this 5g spectrum back in 2020, so now for the government to say oh, well, wait a minute, private industry, have you to wait. the government caused this problem. mary, do you see a quick fix here? well, actually, a quick fix 20 years in the making. yes. what the federal aviation administration has to do is evaluate the systems and the aircraft to make sure that they are properly shielded from interference transmissions.