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In recent months, the center of activity in the 5G saga has been the FAA, which is now led by an interim chief.

Inside the government fiasco that nearly closed the U.S. air system

Jun 6, 2022 ◇ Peter Elkind/ProPublica

The upgrade to 5G was supposed to bring a paradise of speedy wireless - but a chaotic process under the Trump administration, allowed to fester by the Biden administration, turned it into an epic disaster - and the problems haven’t been solved. Read more»

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Tower climber Jay Guilford poses atop a cell tower. He was one of 11 climbers to die while working on AT&T jobs during a wave of cell service expansion from 2006 to 2008.

Cell phone tower workers paying with their lives

May 22, 2012 ◇ Ryan Knutson & Liz Day/PBS Frontline & ProPublica

Tower climbing, an obscure field with no more than 10,000 workers, has a death rate roughly 10 times that of construction. Read more»


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