On this episode of Avtock, we try to unpack what happened this week as C-Band 5G Wireless went live in the United States.

And we talk with Matthew Wheatstock from Western Michigan University about one of the paths

young people can use to enter the aviation industry.

Hello and welcome to episode 147 of Avtoc. I am E.M.

E. Petchenic here as always with...

Jason Rebinowitz and it's great to be recording the last podcast of

2022. Oh wait it's it's only been a day today it feels like a year.

Oh it's been a week. This week has been a long year.

Yeah, you know that meme from 30 Rock where Lemon says, wow, what a week, right?

And then the response is Lemon, it's only Wednesday. That's today.

Yeah, that's today. That's today. It is only Wednesday. It's Wednesday, January 19th,

and it is the first day of 5G C-Band deployment in the United States and

boy what a day it has been! has been so much fun as someone who

has levels of interest in both mobile phone technology and aviation and has been the perfect blending of nonsense on either side of the

section.

I've been thinking about it. we always talk about our friend John

Osterhauer's saying there's always an aviation angle. This week I have been hoping that

there is no aviation angle.

You are going to be disappointed.

I would just like something, I would just like for once for there to not be an aviation

angle.

Let's get into, where do we even start?

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