The Implications of 5G

APP-APSM , Editors Desk , Security Threat By Sarosh Bana, Mumbai Correspondent. When hundreds of flights to and from American airports were cancelled and thousands of air passengers left stranded following the rollout of the fifth-generation, or 5G, wireless services across the United States last week, fears arose about the potential of misuse of such a potent technology. The new 5G networks, which have a spectrum of 3.7 to 3.98 GHz known as the C-band, can interfere with the adjacent operating frequencies of 4.2 to 4.4 GHz of the radio altimeters on planes that measure their elevation by beaming electromagnetic…