AT&T’s Randall Stephenson Attended Unscheduled Oval Office Meeting with Trump
The AT&T chief had an impromtu meeting with President Donald Trump last week. 5G network technology was discussed.

The AT&T chief had an impromtu meeting with President Donald Trump last week. 5G network technology was discussed.

Six retired U.S. defense officials issued a statement on Wednesday warning that European and Asian partners could put American military operations at risk if they use Chinese technology in their 5G networks.

Security officials in the United Kingdom issued a report on Thursday identifying further security risks in equipment from Chinese telecom giant Huawei. The report noted Huawei has made no progress on addressing previously identified problems and said it would be “difficult” to manage the security risk from further Huawei purchases.

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell warned the German government it could lose access to American intelligence if Germany insists on buying equipment from China’s Huawei telecommunications company for its 5G wireless network.

China’s giant Huawei telecommunications company announced on Thursday it filed a lawsuit against the United States government over its ban on government agencies and contractors buying Huawei equipment. The ban was imposed over concerns that Huawei products may create security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by Chinese intelligence agents.

Gordon Chang warned that America is “unsafe” with Steve Mnuchin in a leadership position in trade negotiations with China.

President Trump signaled support for tech and market structure innovation that would create an open-access wholesale market for 5G.

“I want 5G, and even 6G, technology in the United States as soon as possible,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

There was much anticipation over the expected rivalry between the United States and China at a global security conference in Munich over the weekend, given a sense among global elites that the U.S. is withdrawing from the world, and China is growing in stature.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) told Breitbart News exclusively that China’s intense international push for global dominance is the biggest threat that America has ever faced, even more substantial than the one that the Soviet Union posed in the 20th century during the Cold War.

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei spoke to foreign reporters this week for the first time since his company concluded a disastrous year of cyber-espionage suspicions, bans by the United States and other governments, and Canada’s arrest of Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, who happens to be Ren’s daughter. Ren did some damage control for Huawei in his press engagements, striving to project optimism and stressing his corporate independence from the Chinese Communist government.

The Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan announced on Tuesday that smartphones and computers from China’s Huawei corporation will no longer be allowed to connect with its internal network. The ban was imposed “for the sake of information security.”

Britain’s Defence Secretary has articulated “grave, very deep concerns” about the role of Chinese tech giant Huawei in the forthcoming roll-out of the fifth-generation (5G) mobile data network, because of the leverage and access Huawei’s equipment and software could potentially give to the Chinese government.

The United States and China are in a race to develop fifth-generation (5G) cellular wireless technology, which could determine who controls mobile telecommunications in the future, and experts and lawmakers warn the U.S. could lose unless the Trump administration does something fast.

The U.S. government is urging allied nations to avoid using telecommunications equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies Company, even though some of those countries have already made large purchases of Huawei equipment, according to a report published Friday.

As pro-China elements in the media and on Wall Street warn of a “trade war” and wring their hands over President Trump’s tough trade stance with a Chinese government that has been eating our lunch for decades, some of those same forces are waging a different type of war right here at home.

A recent tweet from President Trump’s prospective 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, was about, of all things, the 5G wireless network. Yet while the tweet didn’t have anything to do with presidential politics, it did touch upon presidential policy — and the future of our country.

A deal several years in the works may finally be happening if government regulators do not prevent the massive $26.5 billion merger of major wireless providers T-Mobile and Sprint.

A new report from telecommunications research firm Analysys Mason judges the United States to be in third place for the race to establish a nationwide 5G wireless network, lagging behind China and South Korea but just ahead of Japan.

The FCC unanimously voted to adopt a measure that prohibits U.S. wireless companies from buying equipment from companies seen as posing a national security threat by using funds from a federal program aimed at supporting service in rural areas.

“We are in danger of giving away the internet market to companies beholden to the Chinese Communist party. If we do nothing, we’re not supporting free enterprise, we’re buying our way into economic servitude.”

Treasury Department officials are crafting plans to ban Chinese companies from investing in certain technology sectors, such as semiconductors and 5G wireless communications, according to a Bloomberg News report.

Gordon Chang, an expert on China and columnist at The Daily Beast, called on the Trump administration to block Broadcom’s hostile takeover attempt of Qualcomm in the interest of national security.

Verizon has dropped plans to sell phones made by Huawei, responding to U.S. government suspicions that the Chinese manufacturer’s phones could pose security threats, according to anonymous sources cited by Bloomberg.

Under the plans being discussed with technology leaders, the government would promote a 5G network but not own or build it.

A clash arises between telecom players such as AT&T and Verizon against officials in the Trump administration’s national security team.

Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon joined Breitbart News Daily co-hosts Alex Marlow and Raheem Kassam on Tuesday and discussed China and U.S. relations and their strategic vision at length.

California’s Space X and Boeing are going ballistic in a race to dominate the deployment of up to 30,000 low-orbit 5G communications satellites over the next decade.

Tech innovation is set to move from the Age of Obama, which focused on the needs of high-density urban residents, to the Age of Trump, which will focus on the needs of lower-density suburban residents.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to open nearly 11 gigahertz of high-frequency spectrum for the roll out of “5G” mobile, flexible and fixed-use broadband wireless that may be 100 times faster than 4G.

The European Union and Brazil signed an agreement Tuesday to cooperate on developing ultra-fast 5G mobile networks, aimed at massively speeding up Internet connections on either side of the Atlantic. The agreement signed in Barcelona by EU Digital Commissioner Guenther
