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ⓘ Optimized by Google 18 hours ago View original https://www.wired.com/story/does-it-matter-if-china-beats-the-us-to-build-a-5g-network/ wired.com KLINT FINLEY BUSINESS 06.06.18 07:00 AM DOES IT MATTER IF CHINA BEATS THE US TO BUILD A 5G NETWORK? A man looks at his mobile phone as he walks inside a building in Beijing. WANG ZHAO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES TECHNICAL STANDARDS FOR the next generation of wireless services aren’t even finalized, yet the US and China are already locked in a crucial race to be the first country to deploy a so-called 5G network . Or at least that's what both the US government and the wireless industry say. "The United States will not get a second chance to win the global 5G race," Meredith Attwell Baker, president and CEO of the wireless industry group CTIA, warned in April, when the group released a report concluding that the US trails China and South Korea in preparing for 5G (fifth gene...