Q: Who was in charge of FCC when this 5G/altimeter problem should have been addressed?

[eppur_se_muova]

A: Right-wing TFG cronies with more ideological qualifications than technical ones, of course.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/15/21438820/fcc-donald-trump-nominate-nathan-simington-commissioner-social-media-section-230-order

https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/23/14338522/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-donald-trump-appointment

[uponit7771]

1. K&R, I pray the Biden admin can get ahead of messaging on this one. They switched to the

... Europe model but didn't get all the airports .. that's not Biden's fault but of course without getting in front of this story it'll BECOME Biden's fault.

[CrispyQ]

2. I've come to believe a solid 35% of our adult population has lost touch with reality.

They are going to believe what they want to believe. You can't talk sense into them. Facts don't matter. Right wing media & social media have made the problem so much worse.

[BlueIdaho]

6. The M$M isn't helping

I haven’t seen a positive story about President Biden in months. The beast is fully behind the traitorous Red Hat brigade.

[DENVERPOPS]

9. Hey people

the mainstream media, in the U.S. is 80+% owned by Republicans. Is it any wonder why Trump and Republicans are represented as good, and Biden and the Dems are bad????????????

Most of us have said: "It is like they are brainwashed"

The psychiatrists now tend to agree that watching nothing but Fox News and listening to RW radio for ten years causes this phenomenon of tunnel Republican vision. No different that "re-education camps in Communist, Fascist controlled countries for dissenters......
The most famous being PRAVDA news in Russia for decades........

[BlueIdaho]

12. Agreed but...

It’s not just FOX. Most network news is now riding the “Sleepy Joe” meme and whipping it hard. Unplugging the media machine is a good start. Telling the M$M you have zero confidence in their “We hate Biden” agenda and you have switched off is even better.

Fewer eyes equal fewer dollars in their pockets.

[DENVERPOPS]

14. You are so right, thank you

and hence my first sentence. We have the most censored and biased news of many country's press and tv.....

I first became aware of it while watching the Documentary The Panama Invasion, many decades ago.

It's on Netflix, you should watch it. What our media was telling us was 180 degrees from the actions by our military in reality....
The documentary shows what was really happening by showing what other countries around the world were reporting......
Honestly, it made me nauseated...........I have studied the U.S. Press/Media continuously since then. It is despicable what the Republican owned MSM reports on, and how they report on it........

I really resent that I, as an American, have to use the internet to see what other countries are reporting about happenings in the U.S.
For instance there were several great, very telling articles, in the Guardian this past week.......

I watch this once a month:

[BlueIdaho]

15. Thank you for the recommendation!

My wife will be watching it soon. That Jeff Daniels clip is beyond a doubt the most honest thing I’ve seen on American TV, maybe ever.

[DENVERPOPS]

16. I need to rewatch it every so often.

The Panama Invasion Video, and the cover up that our government chose to tell us, was/is incredibly revealing. When they made it, I wasn't able to get it anywhere here in the U.S. (surprise, surprise) and had to get a copy from Europe and have the video re-formatted to our VCR machines....

[Bongo Prophet]

17. I think you might be referring to Barbara Trent's "The Panama Deception"

Agreed, it is a well-done doc. We saw it in a theater, with Ms. Trent answering questions afterward and passing her Oscar around the audience. This seemed strange in context (serious film, serious questions...ooh, Oscar!), but she was very effective as both a speaker as well as director.

[DENVERPOPS]

18. You are totally correct......sorry (old mind)

Thank you and also thank you for the other information........

[DownriverDem]

7. Considering

that the media is not on his side, how can he get in front of the story?

[uponit7771]

10. By flooding info mediums with their narrative *FIRST*. The "its the M$M" is scapegoating, we need to

... take responsibility for dem lack of message mechanics and push dem pols in to 2020 political messaging.

Continuing to blame it ALL on M$M is counterproductive.

[11 Bravo]

3. 5G didn't exactly sneak up on us.

Why did the FAA wait until now to freak out? My issue is with them, more so than the FCC.

[pnwmom]

11. The FAA didn't wait. Their concerns were expressed by 2019.

https://transportation.house.gov/news/press-releases/chair-defazio-calls-on-fcc-to-postpone-tomorrows-scheduled-auction-of-a-portion-of-37-42-ghz-radio-frequency-spectrum-citing-new-research-that-amplifies-the-safety-concerns-of-the-aviation-community

This is from a piece on Dec. 7, 2020:

Chair DeFazio first brought safety concerns to the FCC’s attention more than a year ago, noting that both the Federal Aviation Administration and the greater aviation community feared that the intended use of this auctioned spectrum—wireless broadband—would interfere with sensitive aviation safety equipment and jeopardize aviation safety. Since then, the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) completed its six-month review and assessment of interference from 5G network emissions with safety-critical radio altimeter performance and found serious risks of harmful interference on all types of civil aircraft, including commercial airlines and general aviation airplanes and helicopters.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Hey, maybe they can reclaim the old 3G bandwidth when cell phones expire. 🤣

[TrogL]

5. Canada has 5G already

Why isn't this an issue here?

[IronLionZion]

8. TFG's buddies took lots of money to sell those frequency bands

Europe uses lower slower bands so they didn't have any problem with their rollout on the same day as ours. The US ones are very close to the frequency used by altimeters and other flight control instruments.

They knew that when they chose money over public safety. And they knew this would happen on the next president's watch so not their problem.

[Submariner]

13. The FCC was under this Ajit Pai punk in 2017

who loved repealing President Obama's net-neutrality bill.