AT&T, Verizon CEOs reject U.S. request for 5G deployment delay
The chief executives of AT&T and Verizon Communications rejected a request to delay the planned Jan. 5 introduction of new 5G wireless service over aviation safety concerns but offered to temporarily adopt new safeguards.
US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson had asked AT&T CEO John Stankey and Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg for a commercial deployment delay of no more than two weeks.
The wireless companies in a joint letter on Sunday said they would not deploy 5G around airports for six months, but rejected any broader limitation on using the C-Band high frequency spectrum on which 5G networks run. They said the Transportation Department proposal would be "an irresponsible abdication of the operating control required to deploy world-class and globally competitive communications networks."
"We are reviewing the latest letter from the wireless companies on how to mitigate interference from 5G C-band transmissions. US aviation safety standards will guide our next actions," the FAA said in a statement to CNN Business.
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