Deutsche Telekom and BMW called on the German government to support the C-V2X mobile technology as the standard for communication between networked vehicles in the Council of the European Union, Heise Online reports.
The CEO of Deutsche Telekom, Tim Hottges, and BMW CEO Harald Kruger sent a letter to the German Transport Minister, Andreas Scheuer, saying that Germany should take the position in the EU Council for a withdrawal of the European Commission’s legal act in the current form and present a new one.
The two managers also stressed in the letter that ITS-G5, the wireless communication standard supported by the Commission, is a "transitional technology" that it would slow down 5G expansion. Germany has to veto the new legislation in the EU Council, they said.
The European Commission supports the ITS-G5 based wireless communication as a European standard instead of C-V2X based on cellular networks. The Commission states that the ITS-G5 format is tested and already in use for short-range communications.
The 5.9 GHz band is available worldwide for the direct communication between vehicles and infrastructure (V2X), transmitting with the WLAN specification 802.11p. The LTE-based Cellular Vehicle to Vehicle (C-V2V, also known as C-V2X or 'vehicle to everything') was adopted in 2017.
