The chief executives of AT&T and Verizon Communications rejected a request to delay the planned Jan. 5 introduction of new 5G wireless service over aviation safety concerns but offered to temporarily adopt new safeguards.
US Transportation Secretary Pete 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.
"If US airlines are permitted to operate flights every day in France, then the same operating conditions should allow them to do so in the United States."Verizon delaying shutdown of its 3G wireless network Officials said the exclusion zones proposed by the wireless carriers is not as large as what has been sought by the FAA.
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