{"id":16535,"date":"2019-03-17T02:45:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T09:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=16535"},"modified":"2020-01-17T03:15:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T10:15:34","slug":"behind-the-scenes-of-the-trump-campaigns-5g-network-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=16535","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes of the Trump campaign&#8217;s 5G network plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>David McCabe, Jonathan Swan, Kim Hart<\/div>\n<div><time class=\"PubDate__root--Zeoon\" title=\"updated March 4, 2019\" datetime=\"2019-03-04T00:52:26.620000Z\">updated Mar 3, 2019<\/time><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\">People close to Trump and a politically connected private company have, for months, been laying out the broad outlines of the plan to create a national wholesale 5G network in op-eds and tweets \u2014 which the Trump campaign was then <a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/trump-campaign-5g-policy-db27ffe5-3ed7-4267-94b1-1d399176e9c0.html\">forced to walk back<\/a>, following widespread confusion within the administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\"><strong>The big picture: <\/strong>Trump&#8217;s campaign manager Brad Parscale <a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/parscale\/status\/1004380669466824705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1004380669466824705&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2018%2F07%2F06%2Fa-major-factor-behind-the-us-china-trade-war-is-winning-in-a-crucial-t.html\">said last June<\/a> that it would be an &#8220;open wholesale market with a privatized company that isn&#8217;t a carrier,&#8221; in his &#8220;personal opinion.&#8221; Last month, he<a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/parscale\/status\/1098636909029539840\"> tweeted again<\/a> about the need for a &#8220;wholesale&#8221; network.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"hidden-5e40ed40-8835-4afd-a5b1-dc6271ca2923\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"false\" aria-expanded=\"true\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\">Declan Ganley, the CEO of Rivada Networks, has been pushing for the same concept.<\/li>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\">\u201cDecisive action building a public-private partnership in the near term demands that we make shared spectrum available for a carrier-neutral, wholesale-only, nationwide 5G network to be built in the next two to three years across the entire country,\u201d wrote Newt Gingrich in a <a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/newt-gingrich-if-china-dominates-5g-they-will-control-future-opinion-1335767\">Newsweek op-ed last month<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\">Rivada could stand to benefit financially from the new network, but Parscale \u2014\u00a0through a Trump campaign spokesman \u2014\u00a0and Gingrich, have both said they have no financial stake in the idea.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\"><strong>&#8220;I refuse to accept any money on 5G because I believe it is the biggest national security challenge we face,&#8221;<\/strong> Gingrich told Axios in a text message. &#8220;We are currently losing. A Huawei-dominated world communication system will be an enormous defeat and a deadly threat to our survival.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\"><strong>In a phone conversation with Axios, <\/strong>Rivada spokesperson Brian Carney said that the company had spoken with players in Washington about its idea \u2014 but said he was not aware of\u00a0conversations that had taken place with Parscale or the Trump campaign on the subject.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\">&#8220;There&#8217;s no financial relationship between us and Newt. Full stop. Period,&#8221; Carney said. &#8220;We have spoken to him about this stuff, because he came to think that we had a pretty good idea for how to deal with this thing.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\">Ganley himself weighed in, <a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/declanganley\/status\/1102326461900488705\">saying on Twitter<\/a> that &#8220;as best as I can tell there\u2019s no distance between The White House &amp; the Campaign because the whole &#8216;Nationalisation&#8217; angle was &amp; more than ever remains a Red Herring.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\"><strong>Here&#8217;s how the public conversation evolved:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\"><strong>January 2018: <\/strong>Axios <a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/trump-campaign-5g-policy-db27ffe5-3ed7-4267-94b1-1d399176e9c0.html\">reported<\/a> that a senior National Security Council official circulated a proposal to effectively nationalize the fifth-generation of wireless technology, sparking condemnation from across government and industry.<\/li>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\"><strong>February 2018: <\/strong>Rivada Networks Ganley <a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/relax-nobody-is-nationalizing-wireless-networks-1517876395\">proposed<\/a> a shared 5G wireless network in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.<\/li>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\"><strong>June 2018:<\/strong> Parscale <a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/parscale\/status\/1004380669466824705?lang=en\">tweeted<\/a> that a &#8220;great 5G network, in my personal opinion, consists of an open wholesale market with a privatized company that isn&#8217;t a carrier. Government doesn\u2019t own or operate it but does provide the spectrum. An open bidding process for bandwidth! No more dead spots!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\"><strong>Feb. 19 and 22: <\/strong>Gingrich <a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/newt-gingrich-america-in-race-against-china-and-the-clock-to-control-future-of-tech\">published<\/a> <a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/newt-gingrich-if-china-dominates-5g-they-will-control-future-opinion-1335767\">op-eds<\/a> supportive of a national wholesale 5G network.<\/li>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\"><strong>Feb. 21:<\/strong> President Trump <a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1098581869233344512\">tweeted<\/a> that he wants &#8220;5G, and even 6G, technology in the United States as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\"><strong>Feb. 21: <\/strong>Parscale <a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/parscale\/status\/1098636909029539840\">tweeted<\/a> that a\u00a0&#8220;5G wholesale market from underutilized spectrum would drive down prices and improve rural availability.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li class=\"StoryBody__item--1cHYD\"><strong>March 1:\u00a0<\/strong>Kayleigh McEnany, the national press secretary for the president&#8217;s campaign,\u00a0<a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/03\/01\/trump-campaign-5g-1230276\">told Politico<\/a>\u00a0that a &#8220;5G wholesale market would drive down costs and provide access to millions of Americans who are currently underserved.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/trump-campaign-5g-network-plan-5e40ed40-8835-4afd-a5b1-dc6271ca2923.html\">https:\/\/www.axios.com\/trump-campaign-5g-network-plan-5e40ed40-8835-4afd-a5b1-dc6271ca2923.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David McCabe, Jonathan Swan, Kim Hart updated Mar 3, 2019 People close to Trump and a politically connected private company have, for months, been laying out the broad outlines of the plan to create a national wholesale 5G network in op-eds and tweets \u2014 which the Trump campaign was then forced to walk back, following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346,357,325,326,289,710],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5g","category-5g-antenna","category-microcell","category-small-cells","category-usa-2","category-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16536,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16535\/revisions\/16536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}