The "5G" network foreshadows a flight crisis ... and the exit of large numbers of aircraft from service

Travelers know the importance of closing their phones before taking off.However, at least in the United States, currently, airlines from mobile phone companies want not to operate their networks.

A catastrophic crisis

On January 17, the heads of many American airlines warned of a crisis that they described as "catastrophic", unless mobile phone companies delayed the operation of parts of their networks with the new "5G" technology, which mobile companies planned to implement on January 19, 2021.

The heads of American airlines, including: "Delta", "United" and "South West", confirmed that large numbers of aircraft can become unusable in this case.They wrote a letter to the White House and the Creativity of Telecommunications and Air Travel in the United States, in which they said: "5G networks can harm the planes."

Technical overlap

Airlines are concerned about the supposed interference between the 5G transmission devices near the airports, because they contradict the radar -height meter, which are tools in the aircraft that use radio waves to determine the height of the plane from the ground.

The Federal Communications Committee, which regulates the cute radio use in the United States in 2020, has studied that the two systems could work together.However, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which is responsible for air travel, opposed this, and said that "aircraft may be unsafe."

Cancel trips

In turn, the New York Times says that after months of controversy, the two agencies reached a "compromise" this month, as mobile networks will implement "ban areas" around specific airports, while more studies are conducted.

The announcement of the last minute of airlines indicates that the agreement has now stopped, although the Verizon and AT & T.On the same day, many international airlines, including Air India, Emirates Airlines, and Japan's flights, canceled their flights to many American cities, due to their fears of the "Fifth Generation" network.

Frequency

There is a large gap in the radio frequency spectrum between the "5G" networks concerned between 3.7 and 3.98 GHz, and height measuring devices that use frequencies between 4.2 and 4.4 GHz.Some experts speculate that the risk plane may contain the ancient, low -quality and more vulnerable plane.

In turn, the Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged that the cost of replacing the standards of height will be "large", and it may not be the airlines, which were affected by the outbreak of the "Coveyd-19" virus, are not ready to bear that cost.

It is also likely that a "political intervention" is likely to break the impasse, especially with the abolition of airlines about 200 flights the day before yesterday, Wednesday.

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