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5G Rollout Delayed By Two Weeks, As FAA Assesses Interference Risk

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, January 5th, 2022

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5G Rollout Delayed By Two Weeks, As FAA Assesses Interference Risk

On March 2, 1983, an F-16 conducted the first flight of the APN-232 Combined Altitude Radar Altimeter (CARA), which the Air Force designed as a replacement for 13 radar altimeters (U.S. Air Force Photo)

AT&T [T] and Verizon [VZ] have agreed to delay their planned Jan. 5 rollout of 5G networks by two weeks, thus accomodating a request by Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Steve Dickson, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in a Dec. 31 letter to the companies. U.S. aerospace firms have suggested that the 5G networks could lead to harmful interference with commercial and military radar altimeters (Defense Daily, Nov. 23, 2021). In response, the wireless companies said in November…

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