Public Knowledge Raises Public Interest Concerns on Delaying C-Band Deployment
Public Knowledge raised concerns about proposals by aviation groups to further delay the deployment of 5G in the C-band near airports (see 2211160075), in a call with an aide to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. A recent report by the Institute…
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for Telecommunications Science “confirms that only those planes with older altimeters that listen out-of-band are at risk of experiencing harmful interference, and that even this modest risk will be eliminated by upgrading these altimeters in accordance with the FAA’s recently adopted standard,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 18-122. “This is not simply a ‘technical matter,’ or merely an inconvenience for the licensees,” PK said: “As a consequence of systemic discrimination and historic patterns of red-lining, many of the neighborhoods closest to airports (and therefore within the ‘buffer zones’ around the airports subject to the mitigation measures) are low income and/or majority non-white communities. For many such households, mobile broadband service is the primary means of internet access. Delaying, or worse permanently preventing, deployment of significant capacity needed for mobile 5G services has a disproportionate impact on these communities -- further aggravating inequality and exclusion.”