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Today, Explained

I got 5G on it

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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You've heard about the trade war, but how about the phone war? Politico's Steven Overly explains why the US and China are fighting over Huawei and 5G. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Throughout the country mobile telephone stations are being expanded to become links in a nationwide

0:38.9

network. The mobile telephone greatly expands the scope of voice communication. It provides

0:45.8

added telephone service in our principal cities. Allows for more efficient operation at railway

0:52.2

terminals. Furniture's easy contact between land and vessels on our waterways. And at the same time

1:00.0

adds to the convenience of travel. It provides an easy way of keeping in touch with vehicles on

1:06.0

the major highways. It is one more step toward telephone service for anyone anytime anywhere.

1:14.8

Stephen Overly you cover technology at Politico. The whole world seems right now to be at odds over

1:31.7

the future of telecommunications. What is happening? What's happening is perhaps the largest sort of shift

1:39.2

in how we use our technology. And really what's behind this is something called 5G, which stands

1:45.9

for fifth generation. And it's essentially a much faster form of computing than what we have even

1:52.4

today. You know using our smartphones, all the apps we use, kind of the technology that powers

1:57.2

that is about to get faster. It's about to get stronger. And there's a global battle right now about

2:02.8

who controls that future. And at the center of it is this Chinese company Huawei, which is like

2:12.0

what? Like China's AT&T, but even bigger and more powerful. Exactly. They're the largest telecommunications

2:17.7

network provider in the world. And so what that means is a lot of the networks around the world,

2:23.2

like the AT&Ts are the horizons of the world, rely on Huawei technology. They're also the world's

2:29.8

second largest provider of smartphones. They're behind Samsung, but actually bigger than Apple

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