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07
Jan

Viasat Requests FCC Look Into Environmental Impact of SpaceX’s Starlink Constellation

January 7, 2021
Source https://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/2021/01/04/viasat-requests-fcc-look-into-environmental-impact-of-spacexs-starlink-constellation/ By Rachel Jewett | January 4, 2021 Viasat has taken issue with SpaceX’s request to lower the orbital altitude of its Starlink satellite constellation, and requested the FCC to prepare an environmental impact statement on Starlink.  In an FCC filing on Dec. 22, Viasat outlined its environmental concerns with Starlink and with SpaceX’s request to relocate the satellites to...
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22
Dec

The military is scrambling to understand the aviation crash risk from a new 5G sale

December 22, 2020
Source: https://www.defensenews.com/2020/12/21/the-military-is-scrambling-to-understand-the-aviation-crash-risk-from-a-new-5g-sale/ By: Valerie Insinna and Aaron Mehta, December 21 at 5:00 AM WASHINGTON — As part of a broader move to boost the 5G industry in the United States, the Federal Communications Commission on Dec. 8 began auctioning a portion of C-band electromagnetic spectrum, a move the committee’s chairman, Ajit Pai, celebrated as “a big day for...
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13
Dec

The FCC Is Allowing 5G Towers on Indigenous Land Without Tribal Consent

December 13, 2020
Source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dpden/the-fcc-is-allowing-5g-towers-on-indigenous Tribal preservation offices can’t keep up with a deluge of requests, with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing them to close or work at reduced capacity. By Sophie Stuber December 9, 2020 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is approving the construction of 5G towers on what could be sacred Indigenous lands without tribal consent, VICE...
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08
Dec

Plane-Crash Risk Seen Rising on FCC Expansion of 5G Spectrum

December 8, 2020
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-07/plane-crash-risk-seen-rising-on-fcc-plan-to-expand-5g-spectrum By Todd Shields, Alan Levin, and Helene Fouquet December 7, 2020, 7:31 PM GMT+2Updated on December 8, 2020, 12:42 AM GMT+2 Study warns of interference with electronics on airliners FCC says use of airwaves is safe and will open auction Tuesday A plan to redeploy spectrum for super-fast 5G wireless networks is sparking concern among aviation safety experts...
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11
Nov

5G Networks Could Pose a ‘Major Risk’ to Your Airplane’s Radar, a New Report Says

November 11, 2020
November 10, 2020 A white paper by an aviation watchdog warns of ‘catastrophic failures’ if 5G moves into the spectrum traditionally used by civil aircraft. BY MICHAEL VERDON A white paper by the RTCA, a private-public aviation partnership that advises the Federal Aviation Administration, warns that 5G technologies could pose a “major risk…of harmful interference” to radar on...
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05
Nov

NASA objects to new mega-constellation, citing risk of “catastrophic collision”

November 5, 2020
Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/nasa-objects-to-new-megaconstellation-citing-risk-of-catastrophic-collison/ ERIC BERGER 11/3/2020 NASA has formally commented (PDF) on a request by a US company to build a mega-constellation of satellites at an altitude of 720km above the Earth’s surface, citing concerns about collisions. This appears to be the first time that NASA has publicly commented on such an application for market access, which is...
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03
Nov

Summary Judgment Ends Consumers’ iPhone Radiation Suit

November 3, 2020
Source: https://lawstreetmedia.com/tech/summary-judgment-ends-consumers-iphone-radiation-suit/ by CHRISTINA TABACCO Apple, Inc. has been granted summary judgment in a case challenging the tech giant’s flagship iPhone products’ compliance with radiofrequency (RF) radiation regulations. Last week, a San Francisco federal court held that the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) RF radiation exposure rules preempted the plaintiffs’ tort and consumer-fraud claims.  The order found that...
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31
Oct

State of New Hampshire – Final Report of the Commission to Study the Environmental and Health Effects of Evolving 5G Technology.

October 31, 2020
November 1, 2020 Final Report on Commission to Study the Environmental and Health Effects of Evolving 5G Technology(RSA 12-K:12-14, HB 522, Ch. 260, Laws of 2019) Link to the report pdf ttp://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/statstudcomm/committees/1474/reports/5G%20final%20report.pdf
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10
Oct

Cellphone Carriers Lobby Against Pentagon Plan for National 5G Network

October 10, 2020
Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cellphone-carriers-lobby-against-pentagon-plan-for-national-5g-network-11602271148?mod=e2tw Defense Department would bypass usual auction process for airwaves; AT&T CEO visited White House to argue against it. Two federal agencies are moving forward with conflicting plans to commercialize a valuable chunk of wireless spectrum controlled by the Defense Department, leaving the future of an asset worth tens of billions of dollars in...
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25
Sep

Microwave News: 5G Waveforms in Dispute

September 25, 2020
Source: https://microwavenews.com/short-takes-archive/5g-waveforms-dispute 5G Waveforms: We Need To Know More – Controversy over Averaging Times Ken Foster & Niels Kuster Disagree on Averaging Times Very little has been written in the popular media about the waveforms used in 5G signals. Two outstanding questions are: How fast are the pulses? How powerful are they? In 2018, Esra Neufeld and Niels...
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