Want 5G Speed and Security? Keep Washington Out

Editor's Note: The following piece originally appeared at AEIdeas, a public-policy blog produced by the American Enterprise Institute. It is adapted here with permission. On Sunday night, Axios published a memo and slides, reportedly obtained from a National Security Council official, suggesting the federal government might want to build its own commercial 5G wireless network. A government 5G network, the memo said, could be like Dwight D. Eisenhower's interstate highway system but for the information age ...