FAA Sees More Work Needed to Resolve C-Band Dispute Amid Collins Call for Rollout Pause
The FAA believes more work is needed to find a good solution to its dispute with the FCC over the impact on aviation safety from 5G C-band wireless broadband signals “so that 5G and aviation can safely coexist,” a spokesperson…
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emailed Thursday in response to a recent letter from Senate Appropriations Transportation Subcommittee ranking member Susan Collins, R-Maine. “While I understand the effort to deploy 5G services quickly, I do not believe the safety of our aviation system and the public should be potentially compromised,” Collins said in a Dec. 23 letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg that circulated the next week. The FCC and FAA should reach a "safe resolution" to the dispute and "postpone" the C-band rollout, set to begin Wednesday, until an agreement happens, it said. The dispute is likely to be a major factor in the FCC’s 2022 spectrum agenda (see 2112290025). Wireless and aviation groups have been pressing their case to the FCC (see 2112220038) and lawmakers amid increased interest in the issue. The FCC didn't comment.