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CTIA Backs House GOP China Task Force 5G Recommendations

CTIA backs new recommendations from House Republicans' China Task Force that the U.S. take a “whole-of-government approach to assess the security risks posed by the” Chinese government “in 5G networks and increasing cooperation between the U.S. and its allies and…

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partners in identifying and countering them.” The task force said earlier this week it also supports forming “a new D-10 group of leading democracies to develop and deploy 5G and subsequent generations and establishing a reimbursement program for companies to remove equipment from their communications networks that poses a national security risk.” The group supported “sanctioning” China-based telecom companies “engaged in economic or industrial espionage” and securing “international leadership” on 5G, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and other emerging technologies. The report “confirms the critical importance of America’s free market approach to building 5G networks and how consumers benefit from private sector competition in the wireless marketplace,” said CTIA Senior Vice President Kelly Cole. “It also makes clear that we must identify more spectrum to make available for commercial use as we build our 5G economy.”