The FCC awarded 5G bandwidth close to the bandwidth used by the airlines—which meant that the airlines would incur major costs to upgrade their planes to avoid signal leakage.
The cell phone industry tried to cram it down the throats of the airlines.
There are some posters here who blame the airlines for being “cheap”, but imho the airlines are not the only ones at fault.
Both industries acted in their own interests, and the .gov failed its responsibilities to negotiate a reasonable settlement.
If it can f with airplanes, what about trains and automobiles?
# There are some posters here who blame the airlines for being “cheap”, but imho the airlines are not the only ones at fault.
I strongly suspect that a lot of the folk complaining about airlines being ‘cheap’ have no idea of the timeline it takes to get ANY hardware certified for flight, or the kind of dependencies the systems in question have with other systems in modern aircraft. HAMS have been bitching about this frequency allocation for quite some time, but no one listens to them because they don’t have multi-billion dollar industries behind them.