American leadership in 5G is profoundly important to American national security, but a pending federal district court ruling puts that leadership at grave risk, just when the Chinese government and its state-owned enterprise, Huawei, threaten to overwhelm America's critical leadership role.
The advancement from 4G to 5G cellular technologies is expected to bring not merely an almost exponential improvement in speed and reliability, but also a totally new kind of mobile network that will satisfy the similar growth in demand for mobile data, enabling the transformative ‘Internet of Things.' One independent study predicts this will open the way to an expected 3.4 million new jobs for Americans, and an additional $800 billion in American GDP by the year 2035. The current leaders of the race to create 5G networks — American companies who fund and do the research and development, implement the inventions, and broadly license the use of those inventions — create the conditions by which technical specifications are adopted to become standards by which the future is shaped.
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