There seems to be evidence that there's just a turf war going on: https://www.wsj.com/articles/pete-buttigiegs-5g-crash-landing-airlines-wireless-carriers-stev

There seems to be evidence that there's just a turf war going on: https://www.wsj.com/articles/pete-buttigiegs-5g-crash-landing-airlines-wireless-carriers-steve-dickson-faa-fcc-11641337368 https://www.wsj.com/articles/pete-buttigiegs-5g-crash-landin... Overall it seems like the FCC was trying to be innovative, while the FAA's precaution in fact is the malaise that's been infecting all of US government: overapplication of the precautionary principle, that any risk, even if small an theoretical, is worth stopping change for (but not asymmetrically for motivating change).