Pai Advocates for 5G Security
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai stressed the importance of 5G security. “5G will affect our militaries, our industries, our critical infrastructure, and much more,” he told Congreso Latinoamericano De Telecomunicaciones Thursday. “Procurement and deployment decisions made now will have a generational impact on our security, economy, and society.” The world can’t make “risky choices and just hope for the best,” he said, per prepared remarks. “We must see clearly the threats to the security of our networks and act to address them. And the more that the United States and our regional allies can work together and make security decisions based on shared principles, the safer that our 5G networks will be.” Pai said he supports principles approved in May by the Prague 5G Security Conference (see 1905030052).