New deal won’t prevent 5G communication networks from interfering with weather forecasts

New deal won’t prevent 5G communication networks from interfering with weather forecasts

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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/new-deal-won-t-prevent-5g-communication-networks-interfering-weather-forecasts

Weather forecasters fear interference from 5G communications network could interfere with data collected by satellites, such as the orbiter that produced this image.

Delegates at an international conference yesterday approved a standard for electronic noise emitted by 5G, the next-generation wireless communication technology, that will result in interference with weather-forecasting observations from space, meteorologists say.