Originally Posted by
Few Cloudy
One could argue, that the government should never have sold this critical band in the first place.
As for the Air / Ground switching, I imagine that the good old WOW switch was thought old fashioned by the software boys.
You could argue that, but realistically the "government" is big and not monolithic, at least in America. The FCC and FAA belong to different cabinet level departments and are strongly influenced by very different political forces. At the working level they, perhaps, work better together than at the executive level, but cooperation is not great and they have very disparate perspectives of the public interest they presumably serve.
With clear and widespread notification of the public safety risk, the 5G industry has perilous liability waters to swim through. They just cannot say they didn't know. This may have more influence on the outcome than actions taken by the government.