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In response to "Too lazy to google. So, 5G is causing planes to not work on top of causing COVID?" by sycor

It's not actually 5G itself, it's a new band that the cell phone companies are deploying 5G on. -- (edited)

Posted by ty97 Jan 19 '22, 06:51

They could be deploying 4G or 7G or 28Z or whatever on this band and the airlines would have the concern. So it's not '5G' technology itself, but usage of this new band which is very close to bands that aircraft rely on (apparently)

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Ah, interesting. Thanks 5G. -- nm - sycor Jan 19, 07:15
explainer -- (link) - ty97 Jan 19, 06:53 8
- Sounds a lot like maybe the airline industry should be upgrading their stuff instead of whining. -- nm - sycor Jan 19, 07:19 6
  - The airplane manufacturers would have to provide an upgrade I figure and I'm not sure they have -- nm - ty97 Jan 19, 07:22 5
    - (Also though why should the airlines have to incur all that cost for the benefit of the cell providers, ya know?) -- nm - ty97 Jan 19, 07:23 4
      - Why should the airlines be able to halt progress that can benefit everyone (faster cell service) instead of upgrading outdated equipment? - sycor Jan 19, 07:40 2
        
        *IS* is outdated though? -- nm - Andie Jan 19, 08:00 1
        
        Can't raelly. But from the article that was posted they do point out that newer planes will not have issues with the C band being used. -- (edited) - sycor Jan 19, 08:23
      - They'll obviously need another bail out. -- nm - Qale Jan 19, 07:24
- Fortunately, C-Band was never used for anything ever before. -- nm - Mop Jan 19, 07:05

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It's not actually 5G itself, it's a new band that the cell phone companies are deploying 5G on. -- (edited)

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