- Airline executives and aviation officials are increasingly warning that new 5G wireless signals will disrupt air traffic.
- The 5G signals will operate in airwaves near radar altimeters, which determine plane altitude by bouncing radio waves off the ground.
- While aviation industry leaders point out tests showing 5G signals interfering with altimeters, mobile providers claim that 5G signals are “sufficiently separated”.
- This potential interference will be hazardous during bad-weather landings, potentially sparking up to 350,000 flight delays and cancellation per year.
