In December, AT&T and Verizon agreed to pause their C Band plans until early January following warnings issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that the 5G spectrum could interfere with aviation safety systems. However, the carriers have rejected a new request made by the FAA Chief Steve Dickson and U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to delay the rollout further.
Issued late last Friday, the proposal asked AT&T CEO John Stankey and Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg for a commercial deployment delay of “an additional short period of no more than two weeks.” This timeframe, the letter stated, would be used to identify “priority” airports and establish alternate methods of compliance.
