<story><title>Why is the ‘race to 5G’ a race?</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/23/18637213/5g-race-us-leadership-china-fcc-lte</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>locacorten</author><text>Two points:&lt;p&gt;1. The article&amp;#x27;s point is that the &amp;quot;The Race to 5G is BS&amp;quot; and not &amp;quot;5G is BS&amp;quot;. Please adjust.&lt;p&gt;2. I can try to offer an answer to the author. History has shown that a novel piece of technology often leads to innovation. Dial-up led to BBNs and the Web, broadband led to audio and video content delivery, and so on. Winning the &amp;quot;race to 5G&amp;quot; means the US will be the first to innovate in systems that take advantage of faster wireless broadband networks. That&amp;#x27;s important. IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baroffoos</author><text>The article already countered #2 by pointing out that countries who &amp;quot;lost the race&amp;quot; ended up with faster, cheaper and more widespread access to 4g. And despite these countries having much better networks than the US, most companies did not just drop everything and move.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why is the ‘race to 5G’ a race?</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/23/18637213/5g-race-us-leadership-china-fcc-lte</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>locacorten</author><text>Two points:&lt;p&gt;1. The article&amp;#x27;s point is that the &amp;quot;The Race to 5G is BS&amp;quot; and not &amp;quot;5G is BS&amp;quot;. Please adjust.&lt;p&gt;2. I can try to offer an answer to the author. History has shown that a novel piece of technology often leads to innovation. Dial-up led to BBNs and the Web, broadband led to audio and video content delivery, and so on. Winning the &amp;quot;race to 5G&amp;quot; means the US will be the first to innovate in systems that take advantage of faster wireless broadband networks. That&amp;#x27;s important. IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Despegar</author><text>&amp;gt;Winning the &amp;quot;race to 5G&amp;quot; means the US will be the first to innovate in systems that take advantage of faster wireless broadband networks. That&amp;#x27;s important.&lt;p&gt;Why is being &amp;quot;first to innovate&amp;quot; important? What happens if we aren&amp;#x27;t first?</text></comment>