Canceled flights, operators ordered to postpone the introduction of 5G, air safety alerts… The switch to very high-speed mobile is harming the activity of American airports, while it has been deployed in Europe without incident. The difference lies in the radio frequencies used and the power of the antenna beams.
How to explain that in the United States, 5G would be dangerous for aviation and not in Europe? Whereas “major international airlines cancel flights to the United States” and that the sector fears 5G interference with on-board instruments, “everything is as if nothing had happened in Europe, where the latest generation of high-speed mobile telephony networks is deployed without any problems”, notice CNN.
The site of the major American news channel wanted to know why. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) “is not aware of any incidents caused by interference with 5G”. The European Union regulator tells CNN, Wednesday, January 19, “Technical data received from European manufacturers offers no conclusive evidence of immediate safety concerns at this time”. Same story on the side of British civil aviation, which, in a press release Tuesday, January 18, reassured: “There have been no confirmed cases where 5G interference has caused aircraft to malfunction.”
However, on the other side of the Atlantic, “companies have warned of catastrophic consequences for aviation and the economy if 5G is deployed”. And according to airline regulators, “5G antennas near airports
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