{"id":1184698,"date":"2022-01-03T19:35:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T00:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1184698"},"modified":"2022-01-03T19:35:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T00:35:25","slug":"att-verizon-reject-buttigiegs-last-minute-plea-to-delay-looming-5g-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/att-verizon-reject-buttigiegs-last-minute-plea-to-delay-looming-5g-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T, Verizon Reject Buttigieg\u2019s Last-Minute Plea To Delay Looming 5G Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fatt-verizon-reject-buttigiegs-last-minute-plea-to-delay-looming-5g-launches%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1184698&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Sunday, AT&amp;T and Verizon rejected U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg\u2019s last-minute plea that their scheduled launch of the latest 5G wireless technology be delayed due to safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith continued COVID crises, it has never been more important that our country\u2019s critical communications infrastructure have the spectrum needed to handle escalating traffic demands from our customers,\u201d AT&amp;T CEO John Stankey and Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=0000017e-1c36-dee4-a5ff-fe3e997f0000\">a joint letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in December,&nbsp; the heads of aerospace giants Boeing and Airbus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/this-cannot-be-the-outcome-air-travel-industry-sounds-the-alarm-over-5g-interference\">warned<\/a> against the upcoming plans to deploy new 5G wireless networks, arguing that the technology could endanger the reliability of vital aircraft safety systems.<\/p>\n<p>Both Dave Calhoun, Chief Executive of Boeing, and Jeffrey Knittel, the CEO of Airbus Americas, urged the Biden administration to delay the rollout of 5G.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Boeing said the aerospace industry was \u201cfocused on fully evaluating and addressing the potential for 5G interference with radio altimeters,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/12\/21\/1066240779\/boeing-airbus-5g-wireless-delay-aircraft-safety-concerns\">NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are collaborating with aviation authorities, government leaders, airlines, and industry groups to ensure the continued operational safety of aircraft throughout the aviation system worldwide,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>On December 31, Buttigieg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/sites\/faa.gov\/files\/2021-12\/12.31.2021%20-%20DOT%20and%20FAA%20Letter%20to%20ATT%20and%20Verizon%20.pdf\">wrote<\/a> to Stankey and Vestberg, offering a \u201cnear-term solution for advancing the co-existence of 5G deployment in the C-Band and safe flight operations\u201d which was rejected by the heads of the telecom giants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States has the safest aviation system in the world. We achieve this every day by actively identifying risks and eliminating them. Passengers have confidence that when they board one of the daily 45,000 commercial flights they will safely reach their destination,\u201d Buttigieg wrote. \u201cWe are an aviation nation because flying is safe. Our safe aviation systems and thriving aviation industry are profoundly important to America\u2019s economy and our way of life. We know you share the desire to keep aviation safe and efficient, and we urge you to seriously consider this solution as a common-sense way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two companies\u2019 CEOs wrote in response: \u201cAgreeing to your proposal would not only be an unprecedented and unwarranted circumvention of the due process and checks and balances carefully crafted in the structure of our democracy, but an irresponsible abdication of the operating control required to deploy world-class and globally competitive communications networks that are every bit as essential to our country\u2019s economic vitality, public safety and national interests as the airline industry.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The CEOs also argued that \u201cFrance provides a real-world example of an operating environment where 5G and aviation safety already co-exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf US airlines are permitted to operate flights every day in France, then the same operating conditions should allow them to do so in the United States,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/at-t-verizon-reject-buttigieg-request-to-delay-their-5g-launches\/\">CNET<\/a>, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is reviewing the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"> @ighaworth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"> member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, AT&#038;T and Verizon rejected U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg\u2019s last-minute plea that their scheduled launch of the latest 5G wireless technology be delayed due to safety concerns. \u201cWith continued COVID crises, it has never been more important that our country\u2019s critical communications infrastructure have the spectrum needed to handle escalating traffic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}