The Epoch Times The United States’ “dithering” in its 5G rollout has left it “well behind” China in the race to dominate the next-generation wireless technology, said former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
In a Feb. 17 Wall Street Journal op-ed co-authored with Harvard University professor Graham Allison, Schmidt argues that average 5G smartphone speed in the U.S. lags far behind that of China and many other nations, and that this gap calls for massive investment in the U.S. tech space to advance competitiveness and national security.
The authors detail how the average 5G mobile speed in the U.S. is about 75 megabits per second (Mbps), a rate that they call “abysmal.” By contrast, in cities in China, 5G phones enjoy average speeds of 300 Mbps, which may not beat South Korea’s average of more than 400 Mbps but is still sufficient for downloading high-definition movies in two minutes, the authors note…
