Your recent op-ed (August 7) called on America’s business elite to help speed up US deployment of 5G technology. The author argued the US needed a leader similar to JP Morgan, who helped save the US banking system in 1907.
But America can kickstart its 5G programme without reincarnating a dead industrialist. Last year, Huawei offered to license its leading 5G technology to a US company. The licence-holder would get access to Huawei’s entire 5G patent portfolio, including software source code, hardware designs, and technologies related to manufacturing, network planning and testing. Controlling this intellectual property would allow the American licence-holder to build and operate advanced 5G networks without security concerns. Washington could appoint any company willing to take on the challenge.
Licensing Huawei’s portfolio would put the US on a fast track to 5G leadership, provide a needed economic boost in the wake of Covid-19 and be an incubator for 6G, expected to be commercialised in about 10 years. For the US telecommunications industry, the licensing offer represents an economically viable shortcut to ubiquitous 5G networks that will benefit American consumers, business and industry. More than that, it is a last-ditch effort to rescue global innovation before it succumbs to a harmful isolationism that could end US tech leadership once and for all.
Paul Michael Scanlan
Chief Technology Officer, Huawei Technologies
Shenzhen, China
August 21, 2020 at 06:00AM
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