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US Govt to build 5g
network?
The US government is considering a federal takeover of portions
of the country's mobile broadband networks, according
to documents obtained by Axios
A National Security Council official presented senior members of
the Trump administration and other agencies with information
suggesting that the United States needs to centralize its 5G
network by the end of President Donald Trump's first term as a
safeguard against Chinese cybersecurity and economic threats,
according to the documents.
In a PowerPoint presentation and memo obtained by Axios, two
options were suggested: have the American government pay for and
build a network, or have wireless providers build their own 5G
networks.
Government control of 5G infrastructure would be unprecedented.
The memo Axios obtained compared the nationalization of 5G to "the
21st century equivalent of the Eisenhower National Highway
System."
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Jon,
It's great that the news about basically nationalizing and
speeding up the building of a national, extensive 5g network is
propelling NOK in a down market today. But not only are all
the telecoms opposed to it, almost all the FCC directors oppose it
(even Democrats don't want to bite the feeding hand of telecoms),
and it's said to be low-level discussions that wouldn't reach Trump
for about 8 months. Given such opposition, plus Trump's having the
attention span of a guppy, I'd be very (pleasantly, albeit)
surprised if it ever came to fruition. Yes, I think Trump once said
that the American people will have the 'best (internet?) in the
world', but then, what hasn't he said that about? And it'd be
interesting to see what Republicans think of a what in effect would
be a government takeover of publc businesses, if that's how the
recommendations ran.
And if such a proposal survived, I wonder whether there might be
prejudice against NOK or ERIC, given that Finland has historically
been seen by Russia as something of a 'puppet state', and given
that the point of such a proposal is to have a telephone system
that isn't so prone to meddling by foreign suppliers. (Finland used
to occupy the entire Kola peninsula - Russia grabbed half of it
when Finland repeatedly refused to allow Russian military bases on
its soil. It's why Finland joined Nazi Germany in WWII - as trhe
only means to take back their land from the Russians, but that
didn't work out too well in the end.) Finland has kept its
'neutral' stance regarding membership in NATO, given its fear of
Russia, although they are a 'Partner for Peace' NATO program
member.
But if all of this came to fruition, and NOK was a large player,
how nice would that be?
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Author:
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Jam
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Subject:
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News
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Sentiment:
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Neutral
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Date:
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01/29/18 at 1:12 PM CST
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