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The authors said 5G development is key as applications could “advantage a country’s intelligence agencies and enhance its military capabilities.”

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This makes no sense unless 5G setups are being illegally eavesdropped on by the US government.

Also, 5G is not really a step change at all for any country that already has the 3G high speed LTE(partial 4G spec) implementation.
There is no major benefit for cell phone users right now.

Really? You even for a Dallas Tx minute think the US Govt doesn't spy on us? My god man. It became public that's just what they were doing back in the early 2000's. Don't think for a sec that the data of your driving habits, your location, your electric or gas consumption much less what music you are listening to won't be open season once autonomous cars are a thing. Having worked for the govt (military role) and having worked at a central office for Sprint wireline for over 10 years, I'm telling you. I don't trust our govt or intel community as far as I can spit facing a hurricane. But hey, that's just me..

Michigan offers nearly 600 miles of roadway equipped for connected vehicle testing and is building the road of the future with a new 40-mile connected corridor project being led by MDOT and the Office of Future Mobility and Electrification.

»www.michigan.gov/whitmer ··· ,00.html

Im just calling out that statement saying there are intelligence and military benefits as that makes no sense beyond spying.
What benefits are they talking about?

Controlling drones for one... Even unmanned vehicles with wheels. I can bet the Navy found a way to use VLF for underwater drones that might resemble a sea lion or flipper.. But you didn't hear that from me.

»militaryembedded.com/com ··· text=For the military, 5G technologies, data speeds, and lower latency.”

It would be odd for military to use commercial 5G for anything.
They should have their own satellites and transmitters under their control.

Why? They have their "sites" they can roll up and deploy and, they "would" (wink) have the ability to piggyback on already established 5G sites during time of need, or hell with it.. they can just take it over and use it for whatever. When we use to pull into port (not home port), we stuck with using our sat phones and systems, along with HF for data and voice service. But, we had the ability to "tap" into local services if needed but that was back before 2G even (just dated myself but I still keep up with some of that shit). The bottom line is this. The military during times of need can and will do anything they want to get the job done. And if that means taking over part of or all of our wireless systems, they will. But for everyday applications, they can still use some of that spectrum to get the job done, as in sharing it along with everyone else.

Besides, you got people here on DSLReports bitching about how much we spend on our military so it's fiscal smartness to not deploy your 5G sites all over the united states when you can let Verizon, ATT or TMO do it for ya, for free.

THIS IS NO SECRET... Many if not the majority of CO's have what's called a GETS system. (Govt Emergency Telephone System). It gave our govt the ability to take over part of the wired phone network during a national emergency. We use to test ours once a week. So, I can assure you, there's one for wireless too.

»www.cisa.gov/sites/defau ··· ions/HOW IT WORKS THE GOVERNMENT Emergency Telecommunications Service.pdf

Most military spending is worthless, but I cant see the benefit of a military using a domestic system for anything.
If anything it should be the other way around. The military can run their own 5G cells and give access to the public when not in a crisis. Like with GPS.
Lets get some taxpayer 5G that we do not need to pay again for a private company for service.

But what you are not acknowledging is how the govt controls the world of telecommunications. They can let someone else build it and it's part of the buy the spectrum aka, licenses to operate. IF the govt comes knocking, you better have a warm pot of joe on the boil and a few sparkling waters in the fridge.

I mean hell, I bet you didn't know that you can store all the freeze-dried food in your bunker that you can stuff in there. But every time a new POTUS term begins, each prez renews the EO that allows the govt to come to your house and TAKE your food, water and ammo during a national emergency. People don't get that. So, if you want to store some emergency food, the best thing to do is in the middle of the night, go bury it in someone else's back yard and when they come knocking, remember, you either ate it already or lost in an ice fishing incident. Living out in the country, I'd use the "platoon of raccoons came and took it all" excuse.

Yep. When I worked at Comcast they even told us during training that we have network redundancy in case the government has to take over land communications in war time. That basically if an aggressor wanted to take out the cable network communications they would have to destroy every plant because traffic can be routed to another one.

Funny that they never employed that redundancy any other time lol