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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen OC_Formula for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, December 3 (Xinhua)-- the European Union is deciding whether to allow flights to provide 5G services to passengers in the air, including using wireless data to listen to music, watch videos, browse various App and make phone calls, because they can't stand the slow over-the-air Wi-Fi service.

If the bill is passed, the EU will require airlines to provide 5G connections to passengers instead of requiring passengers to pay for Wi-Fi, which means that the mobile phone shutdown and flight mode required by airlines will come to an end. If an agreement is reached, EU member states need to be ready for such a 5G network by June 30, 2023.

In response, Thierry Thierry Breton, EU marketing commissioner, said in a statement that the plan would "provide innovative services for people" and help European companies grow. "when it comes to the possibilities of ultra-high-speed, high-capacity connections, the sky will no longer be a limit".

According to reports, airlines will use special network equipment called "picocell (pico-cell)" to connect the plane to the ground and transmit telephone, text and network data through the satellite network on the ground.

Tu Yuan PexelsCTOnews.com learned that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in 2013 that it first introduced a ban on the use of mobile phones on aircraft in 1991 to "avoid the threat of harmful interference with ground cellular networks caused by the use of mobile phones in the air."

It is said that the reason for banning the use of mobile phones on aircraft is that it may interfere with the pilot's navigation system. However, according to Business Insider in 2017, the Federal Communications Commission issued a ban on aircraft mobile phones to "protect terrestrial mobile phone networks from radio interference."

To put it simply, if all airlines allow users to use mobile phones at an altitude of 40,000 feet, multiple signal towers on the ground will receive a large number of mobile phone signals in a short period of time, which may lead to congestion on the ground network and disrupt communication services.

Dai Whitingham, chief executive of the British Flight Safety Board, told the BBC that the use of mobile phones on aircraft had always been banned because people did not know what impact they would have on aircraft at the time.

"We are worried that it may interfere with the automatic flight control system," Whittingham said. "based on experience, we have found that the risk of interference is very small. But we have always advised users to turn off the device or set it to flight mode during the flight."

In other words, although the United States has always had concerns about 5G interference, Whittingham said that Britain and the European Union do not have such concerns.

"it is much less likely to be interfered with, we have a different set of 5G frequencies and the power setting is lower than the US standard. Regulators must provide this possibility for travel users who want 5G, but measures need to be taken to ensure that everything they do is safe."

"will 5G interfere with the plane? Civil Aviation Administration: domestic "aviation 5G" is different from the recent foreign situation, innovation will not sacrifice safety.

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