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AT&T & Verizon won't delay 5G rollout over aviation safety concerns
Carriers want to saturate airports with 5G service because that's a domain of lucrative customers.
The "automated cockpit system" component in question is the ground radar altimeter.
When these precision landing radar systems were designed and deployed, flying into a soup of
competing frequencies at low altitude wasn't a design consideration.
Considering the potential for catastrophe in a fault condition, involuntarily placing airline passengers
into carrier's beta tests looks like yet another money over safety risk that will bring all sorts of hand
wringing and finger pointing when an aircraft crashes short of the runway into a housing development.
But what's a few hundred lives when there's money to be made?