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Telcos v. airports: Canada ahead of the US?

Not so fast: similar results but less drama, eh! By Denis Carmel MANY OF US HAVE noticed the showdown between the Federal Aviation Administration and Verizon and AT&T, where even the U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, as a last resort in a Dec. 31 letter, called on the country’s major telcos to delay the implementation of 5G that was scheduled for Jan. 5, 2022, (after being delayed by one month) to allow for time to implement mitigation measures to prevent interference with spectrum used by airplanes. The wireless operators had agreed on Sunday to temporarily implement measures that have...