Top Trump adviser says the US leads the 5G race, but others think that’s a bad call
- Economist Larry Kudlow insists the United States is ‘ahead of the rest of the world’
- Many tech analysts reject the contention, noting that, among other things, the US lacks a telecoms giant like Huawei to equip a network end to end
Just who is leading the race to win the emerging telecommunications revolution, otherwise known as 5G? That all depends on whom you ask.
Larry Kudlow, US President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, insists that the United States is ahead of China.
That conclusion, however, is either too simplistic, misleading, or flat-out wrong, depending on the analyst. Even the US government’s own Defence Innovation Board, which provides independent advice to the Secretary of Defence, has said otherwise.
Following a meeting Tuesday with executives from US technology companies, Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, said: “They want to help us in any way possible to develop and build out our 5G programme. We are ahead of the rest of the world in this country, by far.”
In doing so, Kudlow went one step further than the original assertion – that the US is tied with China for the top position in the global 5G race – first made in April by CTIA, a Washington-based wireless industry association.
