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.
I have no idea if this is true, fake news or a trial balloon. But I do know that free market private enterprise with its COMPETITION will usually produce far better results. Bypassing private enterprise in favor of a governmental one-solution should only be done in cases of rare TRUE natural monopolies.
Axils lies. All the time.
So, the government will take the infrastructure that private industry built? That’s not a good thing.
As long as the government uses secure comms what do they care?
I agree. Sounds like fake news. Now I believe the feds might build one for military internal use. But not one for private sector... well, then it wouldn’t BE private would it?
1. Anyone who believes this somehow protects us against China is stupid. 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.
Sounds about right to me.
President Trump needs to stick with what he knows, and not fall for any abject silliness such as this. I mean really! Whose f-cking totalitarian wet dream is this? All in the name of national security, of course.
I certainly hope that President Trump doesn't go off the rails with some ridiculous garbage such as this. Let's hope it's a trial balloon, and let's all do what we can to pop it...
I’m not technical, but it sounds like a perfect way for Deep State to cut communications among all Americans. Flip one switch and it’s over. Scary.
Way back when - long before the Internet became common usage, the French government built a “video text” device and systems to handle it on the phone network. Where is it today? Gone, like the Concorde.
DARPA could do something proprietary for exclusive government use on a separate military 5G network. However, most likely DARPA would merely farm out the R&D to the commercial sector, which would likely rapidly gain commercial use of the technology. It would most likely also be the subject of intense foreign spying activity on that development.
It is from Axios, which is about as reliable as Joe Conason or Paul Begala. Don’t believe it until a real news source publishes it.
What exactly is a "5G" network? Yeah, it has some meaning as a marketing term, but as a technical specification, it is somewhat lacking. The terms '3g', '4g', and now '5g' are really marketing terms more than actual networking/cellular specifications. What one carrier called 4g isn't really the same from a protocol perspective as another carrier's 4g. It's all just marketing speak that is supposed to denote rough equivalence. If the government does somehow develop and pay for a '5g' network to be built out nationwide, what will happen to this "5G" network 10 years down the line when the next big thing "6G" comes along? Will the government maintain the 5g network forever? Will they require future compatibility with same?
If the government wants to be concerned about telecom stuff, I'd recommend they point their big snoopy noses at SS7. Of course, the huge flaws we've discovered in SS7 allow the government to pretty much tap those circuits at will without any meaningful control or oversight, so they wouldn't be interested in helping get that stuff fixed. The fact that it also leaves us open to other snoops is just a minor point to the feral government that is of no real concern or interest.
Don’t forget the source. Axios is the child of some ex-Politoco guys, along with NBC and others.
This was probably just one of those “what if” discussions.
Horrible idea...
Let the market and the companies wanting to do it determine this.
What a dumb idea!
This is a Globalist wet dream.
They could spy on every phone and tablet in the United States.
HORRIBLE IDEA
For the record, I have never heard President Trump even mention this 1 time.
Chance are this is FAKE NEWS.
This would be something Hillary Clinton would do.
“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.”
TOTAL HORSE$HIT ARGUMENT.
When has the government been faster than the private sector in anything?
These STUPID people are just learning about 5G and making a false argument. The Wireless Companies are already building 5G, and have been for a while now.
The 5G will begin roll out THIS YEAR. These government morons still trying to figure out something that already debated over 5 years ago.
IDIOTS!
... an unprecedented nationalization of a historically private infrastructure.Not direct parallel, but see interstate highway system.
This is where I probably split with a lot of people here. This is one of the few bug government type things I favor.
Like the gubment took over the healthcare system...and everyone’s healthcare costs went down.
I’m in.