WASHINGTON, Jan 2 (Reuters) – The chief executives of AT&T T.N and Verizon Communications VZ.N rejected a request by U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to delay the planned Jan. 5 introduction of new 5G wireless service over aviation safety concerns.
Buttigieg and Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson had asked AT&T CEO John Stankey and Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg for a commercial deployment delay of no more than two weeks.
The wireless companies in a joint letter Sunday said they would not deploy 5G around airports for six months but rejected any broader limitation on using C-Band spectrum. They said the Transportation Department proposal would be “an irresponsible abdication of the operating control required to deploy world-class and globally competitive communications networks.”
U.S. officials ask AT&T, Verizon to delay 5G wireless over aviation safety concerns
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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