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Defense officials lukewarm on 5G spectrum-leasing plan pushed by the White House
Under federal law, the military cannot use the spectrum to turn a profit. And Defense officials are wary of whether leasing spectrum would run afoul of those restrictions.
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The Defense department sought ideas for making even more frequencies available, in a recent Request for Information. One question it posed was whether the department could operate a domestic 5G network and make its capacity available to for-profit firms and others. “They know the answer is no, [the Defense department] should not own and operate a commercial 5G network and they have no notion of doing so,” said Ganley, whose Rivada Networks has unique dual-use technology for sharing 5G networks that would allow the Pentagon, in seconds, to take back the spectrum in a national emergency. Rivada would profit from a spectrum-sharing arrangement. “Sharing raw spectrum, they’ve been every much open to that and they’ve been open to that for some time now,” Ganley said.
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The investors, he says, are domestic, despite a Politico report (picked up on Breitbart) indicating he was in talks to raise money from Qatar. Ruddy says he sent proposals to many sovereign wealth funds, among others, but has not taken foreign investment. He blames his former rival, Steve Bannon, for pushing the Qatar story, but such grudges are fleeting in the often-shifting alliances of the new right: Bannon’s podcast, War Room, is now also broadcast on Newsmax late at night on weekdays.
US sets up new open RAN group amid telecom slugfest with China | Light Reading
At the time of publication, the group had not responded to questions about its precise role and what makes it different from the Facebook-led Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and the O-RAN Alliance, the two main groups already in this space. It’s important to note, however, that the published membership list features the names of several non-US companies, including Fujitsu, NEC, NTT, Rakuten (all Japanese), Samsung (South Korean), Telefónica (Spanish) and Vodafone (based in the UK).
Just about all the other members are American, however, and there are plenty of them. They include (deep breath) Airspan, Altiostar, AT&T, AWS, Cisco, CommScope, Dell, Dish, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Juniper Networks, Mavenir, Microsoft, NewEdge Signal Solutions, Oracle, Parallel Wireless, Qualcomm, US Ignite, Verizon, VMware, World Wide Technology and XCOM-Labs.
Besides missing any Chinese names, that list also omits any mention of either Ericsson or Nokia, the two European vendors largely responsible for the US 5G projects that are currently underway. Open RAN may seem just as threatening to these companies as it does to Huawei, reducing equipment costs and bringing competition into the radio market (if it works out).
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Nicholas Lemann dissects Steve Bannon’s claim that his father’s stock-market experience triggered his own political activism.
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SO WILL PHONE BILLS GO UP OR DOWN?
Opinion is divided.
Generally, fewer competitors mean higher prices, which is why the Department of Justice required the companies to sell part of its business to Dish to keep the number of major wireless providers at four. This is also central to the states’ challenge to the deal.
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On Friday, telecommunications giant AT&T announced the launch of a 5G network in 10 of its markets, but, it’s not what you think.
— Read on moneyandmarkets.com/miller-att-5g-isnt-the-5g-you-think-it-is-or-want-it-to-be/
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