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Trump team weighs nationalizing 5G

Jan. 29, 2018 2:16 AM ET|By: Yoel Minkoff, SA News Editor

National security officials in the Trump administration are looking at options where the U.S. government could take over part of the country's mobile network as a way of guarding against "dominant malicious actor" China.

The report from Axios describes two options: The U.S. government pays for and builds the single network - an unprecedented nationalization of private infrastructure - and an alternative where U.S. wireless providers build their own 5G networks, which would be less commercially disruptive to the industry.

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