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NEW YORK, NEW YORK -(77WABC)- The New York Times reporting that Verizon and AT&T said they would delay the debut of new 5G cellular service near some airports, an attempt to address concerns that their equipment would interfere with airplane equipment when the service started on Wednesday.
AT&T said in a statement that it had “voluntarily agreed to temporarily defer turning on a limited number of towers around certain airport runways” while it continued to work with aviation regulators. Verizon said it would also go ahead with its Wednesday launch but would add some additional measures to address concerns around airports.
Neither company said where they would apply the new measures, and it was not immediately clear whether the changes went far enough to satisfy airlines and aviation safety regulators and avoid mass flight cancellations.
The announcements came just after the executives of 10 airlines sent a letter to the transportation secretary.
