U.S. "5G storm" forced to stop flights to the United States: fears of new 5G cell phone services affect flight safety

Several international airlines said they canceled flights to the United States starting Wednesday due to uncertainty about interference between the new 5G cellular service in the U.S. and important aircraft technology, CCTV News reported, citing CNN. Emirates, Air India, All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines all announced cuts in flights to the U.S., citing the issue, the report said. The Federal Aviation Administration previously warned that 5G signals could interfere with radio altimeters inside planes, creating a catastrophic crisis. On Tuesday, local time, AT&T and Verizon Communications agreed to temporarily scale back their 5G wireless network expansion plans to address aviation safety regulators' concerns about the signals affecting aircraft equipment, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. In a statement, an AT&T spokesperson said, "Based on our judgment, we have agreed to temporarily delay a limited number of towers near some airport runways and will roll out 5G service elsewhere as planned." Later Tuesday, Verizon followed in AT&T's footsteps by pledging to voluntarily limit its 5G network around airports. verizon said the 5G service launched Wednesday will still reach more than 90 million Americans. On January 21, Chen Xiangyang, deputy director of the Civil Aviation Administration's Air Traffic Control Industry Management Office, said at a CAAC press conference in response to questions that may have recently focused on the news of 5G signals affecting aircraft radio altimeters at some foreign airports, which refers to 5G public networks in some specific frequency bands, while the "Aviation 5G Airport Field Broadband Mobile Communications Construction and Application Implementation Plan The "Aviation 5G" will not happen in a similar way. "Any technological innovation in civil aviation will not come at the expense of security or weakening of security." Chen Xiangyang stressed. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)