Tom Wheeler and Nicol Turner Lee on 5G Deployment and Digital Competition with China
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🗓️ 1 May 2020
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Margaret Taylor spoke with Brookings scholars Tom Wheeler and Nicol Turner Lee to discuss their new papers published as part of a two-year-long Brookings project called Global China: Assessing China’s Growing Role in the World. They talked about where the United States and China stand in the so-called “race” to deploy 5G networks, and the need for a coherent U.S. national strategy going forward. They talked about spurring American competition by liberating the crucial asset of the next wave of the digital economy—consumer-generated data—and they talked about the prospects for effective regulation and protection of individual privacy.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:34.0 | This whole thing about there being some kind of a 5G race, I think is a mischaracterization. |
| 0:44.5 | If there is a race, it's a marathon, but it's been played as if it is some kind of a sprint |
| 0:53.1 | with a finish line. |
| 0:55.6 | I mean, the United States was not first in 1G, 2G, 3G or 4G. |
| 1:03.0 | Yet, the United States is dominant in wireless devices and applications. |
| 1:10.0 | And I think we need to look at 5G in that kind of construct and not confuse a technical |
| 1:20.2 | standard with a product market. |
| 1:25.4 | I'm Margaret Taylor and this is the LawFair podcast May 1st, 2020. |
| 1:31.5 | I sat down with two of my fellow Brookings scholars, Tom Wheeler and Nicole Turner-Lee. |
| 1:37.3 | To discuss their new papers, publish as part of a two-year-long Brookings project called |
| 1:41.9 | Global China, assessing China's growing role in the world. |
| 1:46.9 | These to their papers can be found on the Brookings website and on this episode's show |
| 1:51.0 | page. |
| 1:52.6 | We talked about where the United States and China stand in the so-called race to deploy |
| 1:56.8 | 5G networks and the need for a coherent US national strategy going forward. |
| 2:03.3 | We talked about spurring American competition by liberating the crucial asset of the |
| 2:07.6 | next wave of the digital economy, consumer generated data. |
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