5G will "transform" American life, especially in rural America
Rural communities where access to the internet is behind today's technology, is about to get a big boost.
It's courtesy of 5G technology, President Trump predicts.
"Wherever you are, you can access very quickly to 5G," said Trump, and estimates that the new standard could be 100 times faster than existing networks. "And it's going to be another life. I don't know it's going to get better, maybe you're happy as it is right now, but I can say – technologically it won't even be close."
Trump spied on American success in the development of new wireless networks, which has become the latest competition between Western forces and China. But while other US officials and world leaders have focused on the geopolitical rates of 5G, the president also had a home audience in mind.
"As we make great progress with 5G, we are also focused on rural communities that do not have broadband access at all," he said. "They just haven't been treated properly. And now we make it a priority. It's the areas we want to go first, so they're covered."
Verizon launched the first US 5G networks last week in Minneapolis and Chicago, but Trump observed that US companies are expected to distribute 5G in 90 more markets "by the end of this year." That expectation, paired with the unveiling of a $ 20.4 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund ̵[ads1]1; announced by Federal Communications Commissioner Ajit Pai, who appeared at the White House next to Trump – increases the prospect of Trump The administration could deliver a technological boom for a key constituency, just as the 2020 re-election campaign heats up.
Trump referred to the political significance under his address when he recognized some of the ranchers and peasants invited to participate in the 5G event.
"We have a couple of people from the lovely farms I love, that's for sure I voted for me," Trump said. "I don't want to ask them, but … I think most of the time they did, I know it almost automatically."
The president stressed that the US 5G network would be "the private sector driven and private sector led" but the government spied on "incentives" to encourage US companies to jump into the 5G time before China does.
"We cannot allow another country to expand the United States into this powerful industry of the future," Trump said. "We are leading so much, in so many different industries of that type, and we just can't let it happen. The race to 5G is a race America must win. And it's a race, honestly, that our big companies are now involved in. We have given them the incentive they need. "
