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TOPIC IV. NETWORKING MEDIA and HARDWAREBog'liq 4 PROFESSIONAL ENGLISHTOPIC IV. NETWORKING MEDIA and HARDWARE
How a National 5G Network Idea Materialized in Trump White House
By Don Reisinger
The race to be the top 5G network provider in the U.S. is on among the country’s biggest carriers.
But private wireless service providers were blindsided by recently leaked national security
document that floats the idea of building a secure national 5G work. The document, obtained by
U.S. news website Axios, indicates that President Donald Trump’s national security advisers has
proposed building a secure national 5G network to ward off Chinese cyber-attacks. However, soon
after the news broke, critics that included Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai
and top executives with private sector wireless service providers derided the proposal as an
impractical and even irresponsible idea. This slide show will discuss what implications a national
5G network to the ongoing development of private sector.
A 5G Primer
Over the past few years, industry watchers have working on the development of Fifth Generation
wireless protocol technology specification, called simply 5G. When the technology is deployed it
will support higher capacity data transmission to accommodate a broader set of devices and
services. Most importantly, it will deliver speeds at 1 Gbps which promises to reduce transmission
latency over a network to about 4ms. That will ensure connected devices, including self-driving
cars, will be able to communicate with each other far more quickly than currently possible and
support a host of technical advances.
What the Private sector is doing to implement 5G
To ensure people across the globe will be able to take advantage of 5G, the wireless industry is
working to agree on specifications for hardware and software to get the technology up and running.
Wireless service providers can start building their networks until the specifications are approved.
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