No One Knows Why The Pentagon Is Refusing To Give Up Their Wireless Spectrum To Companies Who Want To Build A 5G Network

5G wireless technology might replace older radios like this one operated by two airmen in 2013 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brett Clashman

Politico: The Pentagon Is Sitting on a Chunk of Valuable Airwaves. Why?

Companies say they need the military’s wireless spectrum to build a 5G network. The military has other plans—and nobody is sure what they are.

As the Trump administration squares off with China’s Huawei over who will dominate the world’s next generation of wireless networks, another battle is emerging closer to home. And in this one, the force causing the most concern isn’t a shadowy Chinese firm, or even a company at all. It’s the Pentagon.

The fast new consumer and business network known as 5G, already being touted in Super Bowl ads, will require large new swaths of the airwaves. And for the companies building it out, the most coveted piece of that invisible real estate is the “mid-band,” a set of frequencies that can carry far more data than current cellphone signals.

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WNU Editor: The Pentagon clearly has its own ideas on what to do with their part of the airwaves.