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On this episode of the AEI Events Podcast, Commissioner Brendan Carr visits AEI to discuss the importance of fifth-generation (5G) wireless technology and the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) efforts to make sure the US is ready for 5G from a regulatory perspective.
In a discussion with AEI’s Shane Tews, Commissioner Carr explained the FCC’s work on reducing regulatory costs and barriers to deploying small cells and 5G wireless networks and its efforts to work with state and local governments to speed 5G deployment in urban and rural areas. He discussed infrastructure challenges facing the US in the global race with China (and others) to 5G, and he expressed his belief that a combination of reducing regulations, making the most spectrum available, and using America’s free-market system would allow the US to reap the benefits of winning the race.
The expert panel that followed discussed how 5G small cells work, 5G’s massive economic promise, the importance of deploying 5G for national security reasons, and the wave of innovation that would occur in the country that wins the race to 5G. They also previewed technologies that 5G would make possible and discussed legislative solutions in Congress for ensuring spectrum availability and cutting-edge wireless infrastructure in rural areas.
This event took place on September 17, 2018.
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Shared this with an Army Cyber Officer friend of mine. I see a lot of potential battlefield uses for this: establishment of remote local networks and intentional decentralization of data so if compromised it would limit impact. We also have to carry bulky and heavy batteries; if we could increase battery life by centralizing the computing efforts in these mobile tactical 5G nodes, we could drastically increase information available to warfighters while reducing their load.