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Page 7: "The shift to 5G will carry the same potential risks and rewards as previous
generational transitions, but at an even larger scale. The leader of 5G stands to gain hundreds of billions of dollars in
revenue over the next decade, with widespread job creation across the wireless technology sector. 5G has the potential to
revolutionize other industries as well, as technologies like autonomous vehicles will gain huge benefits from the faster,
larger data transfer. 5G will also enhance the Internet of Things (IoT) by increasing the amount and speed of data flowing
between multiple devices, and may even replace the fiber-optic backbone relied upon by so many households. The country that
owns 5G will own many of these innovations and set the standards for the rest of the world.
For the reasons that follow,
that country is currently not likely to be the United States." Page 11:
"In the current state of 5G development and spectrum usage, it is unlikely that the United States will be able to leverage
such technology, much less lead the rest of the world in that band of spectrum deployment as it did with 4G almost a decade
ago." Page 18: "U.S. government interest in 5G has been ramping up
over the last decade. In 2016, the White House launched a $400 million Advanced Wireless Research Initiative to promote wireless
testing platforms, while the FCC passed its “Spectrum Frontiers” policy in which the United States committed to
releasing large quantities of mmWave spectrum for both licensed and unlicensed use. Interest in 5G has increased under
the current administration, which has offered up a series of initiatives and directives emphasizing the importance of 5G and
to develop a clear roadmap. The current administration supports a private sector-led 5G effort, rather than a government-led
nationalized 5G plan."
Chairman Tom Wheeler: "On my first day as Chairman, I described the FCC
as the nation's Optimism Agency. Today's Spectrum Frontiers Order is exactly what I had in mind when I made that statement.
Our broadband networks, wired and wireless, will define what our world is going to be like. From job creation, to education,
to healthcare, to energy and on down the line, these networks will unleash new innovations, making the impossible possible.
We have the incredible privilege of helping to shape that connected future. Today, we take the most significant steps yet
to enable the next generation of wireless connectivity.
Fifth-generation, or 5G, connectivity will likely be more than
an incremental evolutionary step forward in wireless technology. It promises quantum leaps forward in three key areas: speeds
resembling fiber that are at least 10 times and maybe 100-times faster than today's 4G LTE networks; responsiveness less than
one-thousandth of a second, which enables real-time communication; and network capacity multiples of what is available today...."
"Coupling this ultra-fast, low-latency, high-capacity connectivity with the
almost unlimited processing power of the cloud will enable super fast wireless broadband, smart-city energy grids and water
systems, immersive education and entertainment, and an unknowable number of innovations. In a 5G world, the Internet of Everything
will be fully realized; everything that can be connected will be connected. Most important, 5G will enable killer
applications yet to be imagined..."
"With
today's Order, we are repeating the proven formula that made the United States the world leader in 4G: one, make spectrum
available quickly and in sufficient amounts; two, encourage and protect innovation-driving competition; and three, stay out
of the way of market-driven, private sector technological development.
Today's Order will make the United States the first
country in the world to identify and open up vast amounts of high frequency spectrum for 5G applications. The big game-changer
is that we are using much higher-frequency bands than previously thought viable for flexible uses, including mobile...."
From: "Spectrum Frontiers R&O and FNPRM" - Federal Communications Commission (FCC) USA
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