{"id":26042,"date":"2022-05-13T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=26042"},"modified":"2022-05-13T11:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:50:13","slug":"quote-of-the-day-u-s-leads-the-world-in-5g-rollout-thanks-to-deregulatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26042\/quote-of-the-day-u-s-leads-the-world-in-5g-rollout-thanks-to-deregulatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day:  U.S. Leads the World in 5G Rollout, Thanks to Pro-Market Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From economist Thomas Hazlett, in an insightful admonition against crony capitalist government intervention into the telecommunications market entitled &#8220;The U.S. May Repeat Mexico&#8217;s Wireless Spectrum Mistake&#8221; in today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-u-s-may-repeat-mexicos-wireless-spectrum-mistake-5g-network-4g-mobile-carriers-competitors-red-compartida-11652389976?mod=itp_wsj&amp;ru=yahoo\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0 offers this little gem and tribute to the positive payoff of America&#8217;s comparatively pro-market deregulatory approach:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Meanwhile, 5G networks are spreading more rapidly in the U.S. than in any other nation, with 49% coverage in October 2021.\u00a0 (China was at 20% that month.)\u00a0 This rollout benefits from recent U.S. auctions for flexible-use spectrum rights, infusing networks with new capacity that lowers costs and spurs rivalry.\u00a0 Further liberalization should continue.\u00a0 Regulators haven&#8217;t been able to divert frequencies to selected business models to increase competition.\u00a0 U.S. policy makers should avoid trying.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From economist Thomas Hazlett, in an insightful admonition against crony capitalist government intervention into the telecommunications market entitled &#8220;The U.S. May Repeat Mexico&#8217;s Wireless Spectrum Mistake&#8221; in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal,\u00a0 offers this little gem and tribute to the positive payoff of America&#8217;s comparatively pro-market deregulatory approach: Meanwhile, 5G networks are spreading more rapidly in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5022,2003,188,3228,3244,2566,2573],"class_list":["post-26042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-5g","tag-deregulation","tag-fcc","tag-spectrum","tag-telecom","tag-telecommunications","tag-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26046,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26042\/revisions\/26046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}