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verizon and AT&T He rejected the US government’s request to delay the rollout of next-generation wireless technology.

A joint letter on Sunday to telecommunications giants Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, and Steve Dickson, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, sought to dismiss U.S. airlines’ concerns that a new 5G wireless service could harm aviation.

However, its CEO Hans Vestberg Verizon Communicationsand CEO John Stankey AT&T, also wrote that they are willing to accept some temporary measures in the next six months to limit service around certain airport runways.

Airlines have asked the Federal Communications Commission to delay its planned 5G rollout this week, saying the service, which begins Wednesday, could interfere with electronics that pilots rely on.

Airlines for America, a trade group for major US passenger and cargo carriers, said in its emergency filing that the FCC did not adequately consider the damage 5G service could do to the industry. The group is seeking more time for the FCC and the FAA, which regulates airlines, to resolve aviation safety issues. These are about a kind of 5G service based on parts of the radio spectrum called C-Band that wireless carriers spent billions of dollars buying last year.

Buttigieg and Dickson, who partially sided with the airlines, wrote to the company’s CEOs late Friday. AT&T and verizon To propose a delay in activating 5G C-band service near an unspecified number of “priority airports” as the FAA examines the potential to interfere with aircraft operations.

AT&T and verizon It had previously agreed to a one-month delay in 5G, which provides faster speeds when mobile devices are connected to their networks, allowing users to connect many devices to the internet without slowing them down. But telecommunications executives said on Sunday that further delays requested by the government would hurt their customers.

“To accept your proposal would not only be an unprecedented and unwarranted circumvention of legal process and checks and balances elaborated in the structure of our democracy, but also an irresponsible relinquishment of operational control needed to deploy competitive communications networks around the world and globally. “It is as vital as the airline industry for the economic viability, public safety and national interests of our country,” he said.

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