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Re:America Needs a Nationalized 5G Network by lern_too_spel on Sunday February 11, 2018 @11:23PM (#16356521)
The proposal is to build public infrastructure and lease it to private firms, not to pay private firms with public money to build and own infrastructure.
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Re:America Needs a Nationalized 5G Network by wmf on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:51AM (#16356818)
When people talk about this "nationalized" 5G network, it's very likely that it would be outsourced to a single prime contractor (probably either AT&T or Verizon). The government has actually done this before with FirstNet.
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Re:America Needs a Nationalized 5G Network by snissn on Sunday February 11, 2018 @11:34PM (#16356562)
Which also has potential for abuse and failure
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