Posted on 01/28/2018 5:07:10 PM PST by Mariner
Trump national security officials are considering an unprecedented federal takeover of a portion of the nation’s mobile network to guard against China, according to sensitive documents obtained by Axios.
Why it matters: We’ve got our hands on a PowerPoint deck and a memo — both produced by a senior National Security Council official — which were presented recently to senior officials at other agencies in the Trump administration.
The main points: The documents say America needs a centralized nationwide 5G network within three years. There'll be a fierce debate inside the Trump administration — and an outcry from the industry — over the next 6-8 months over how such a network is built and paid for.
Two options laid out by the documents:
The U.S. government pays for and builds the single network — which would be an unprecedented nationalization of a historically private infrastructure.
An alternative plan where wireless providers build their own 5G networks that compete with one another — though the document says the downside is it could take longer and cost more. It argues that one of the “pros” of that plan is that it would cause “less commercial disruption” to the wireless industry than the government building a network.
Between the lines: A source familiar with the documents' drafting says Option 2 is really no option at all: a single centralized network is what's required to protect America against China and other bad actors.
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
2. Anyone who proposes it somehow protects us against China is evil, with another agenda.
3. Whomever made the proposal must be fired immediately. Today.
Or to guard against a Deep State blackout.
Can anyone imagine the Government not completely screwing this up?
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Wouldn’t this develop into central control and allow control of all phases and access, such as China now does to its own citizens?
Fake news...no nationalizing...wrong party.
AT first glance I like it. It’s limited in scope, it’s a national infrastructure and its the perfect answer to the potential of corporate censorship.
This needs a f’n Drudge siren.
Firstnet *IS* this.
this is a nothing burger. Google firstnet.
China has more tentacles in our government than Obama and Hillary combined.
Yeah, let's put all of our battleships in one line at Pearl Harbor, for protection!
Let's put all of our investments into one and only one company, for protection!
Let's have one and only one system, instead of several, so that someone (China or not) will only need to make one successful intrusion instead of several... for protection!!
Idiots.
The government comes up with all sorts of wackadoodle ideas that never see the light of day...
Look a squirrel
I am willing to wager that as the Obama/Clinton Sedition and Spying scandal comes out, there will be an incredible amount of balloon juice spewed forth simply in an effort to muddy the waters, if not to try and undermine and scandalize Team Trump before it’s too late.
The man who showed the world how private enterprise can build a skating rink that the government couldn’t, that same man is going direct Fedzilla to shut out the telecommunications industry so he can bring Department of Motor Vehicles competency to a national 5G network in the name of cost savings and security?
Do tell.
“Firstnet *IS* this.”
Firstnet was/is being built by the major carriers for public safety agencies in the US.
First responders will be the ONLY users.
It’s not even close.
If you like the efficiency of the VA system you will love the gov’t run 5G network.
Or it just could be Fake News.
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