BY ROBERT M. MCDOWELL
September 21, 2021 at 5:00 am ET

Senior Biden administration officials will gather at the Commerce Department today to give us our first clues about their policies that will shape the United States’ 5G future.

This is an opportunity to build on previous efforts to convert government licensees for private sector 5G uses. Spectrum policy leadership and planning is critical to complete the U.S. 5G ecosystem while planning for the next-generation wireless technology, 6G. It’s also essential to shed some mistakes of the past.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo indicated in her confirmation hearings that a “whole of government” – from the executive branch to Congress — is critical to 5G leadership. She’s right. She’s also right on the need to avoid 5G pretenders which will negatively undermine national security. Exhibit A is “Ligado Networks, the subject of a letter from the secretary earlier this year.

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