WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:63000 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:05.360 Providers like AT&T and Verizon and T-Mobile use different types of frequencies 2 00:00:05.980 --> 00:00:09.240 to send 5G signals to us all around the country. 3 00:00:09.900 --> 00:00:13.880 And what's happening is AT&T and Verizon are going to turn on some new 4 00:00:13.881 --> 00:00:14.714 frequencies. 5 00:00:14.940 --> 00:00:19.440 And the airline industry is showing concerns about these frequencies 6 00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:21.110 interfering around airports. 7 00:00:26.970 --> 00:00:31.110 5G could be 10 times or more faster than the older phone connection you had. 8 00:00:31.460 --> 00:00:35.830 That means you can watch sports or news or movies or whatever - you can do that 9 00:00:35.831 --> 00:00:36.450 on your phone. 10 00:00:36.450 --> 00:00:40.870 What's happening now is there's some concern that these frequencies will 11 00:00:40.870 --> 00:00:43.380 interfere with planes altimeters, 12 00:00:43.590 --> 00:00:47.340 which are used to tell you where the plane is in distance, you know, 13 00:00:47.341 --> 00:00:50.900 from the ground. If the pilot cannot see where they're going, 14 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:54.700 if there's fog or whatever, even for landing or takeoff, flights could, 15 00:00:54.701 --> 00:00:59.420 in theory, be delayed, diverted,and actually be canceled. 16 00:00:59.720 --> 00:01:01.220 The airline industry is saying, well, 17 00:01:01.530 --> 00:01:04.970 there's enough concern that we should not have these new frequencies turned on 18 00:01:04.971 --> 00:01:08.530 around airports. Companies like AT&T and Verizon, you know, 19 00:01:08.531 --> 00:01:12.010 who paid tens of billions of dollars for this new spectrum, 20 00:01:13.010 --> 00:01:16.090 they say, this is safe. It's being used in other countries. 21 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:21.210 They're agreeing to not turn it on around airports or turn it 22 00:01:21.211 --> 00:01:24.640 down low so it doesn't affect with the signals, 23 00:01:24.641 --> 00:01:28.720 but eventually Verizon and AT&T are going to want to turn these on. You know, 24 00:01:28.721 --> 00:01:32.440 if you're at an airport and you can get a 5G connection versus an older 25 00:01:32.441 --> 00:01:35.120 connection, you can watch Netflix. You can, you know, 26 00:01:35.180 --> 00:01:37.760 do FaceTime with somebody before you get on your plane or whatever. 27 00:01:37.830 --> 00:01:41.120 That is the overall goal. As far as we know, 28 00:01:42.140 --> 00:01:46.550 5G has never interfered with a plane landing or takeoff or anything. 29 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:50.590 These are all based on computational models at this point. 30 00:01:50.890 --> 00:01:53.990 As the companies turn on their 5G networks, they could do tests. 31 00:01:54.260 --> 00:01:58.070 Hopefully the FAA and the FCC can work together and say, 32 00:01:58.071 --> 00:02:00.230 let's do this test at this airport and see what happens. 33 00:02:00.940 --> 00:02:05.500 They are taking this seriously enough that you don't have to worry about 5G 34 00:02:05.501 --> 00:02:09.420 signals messing with your airplane taking off or landing in the weeks ahead. 35 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:13.860 And eventually these issues will be resolved and everything will work together.