In North Texas, FCC Commissioner Champions 5G as an Economic Engine

Climbers in harnesses descended from bright blue stacked shipping containers Monday morning — not to work out in a rock climbing gym, but to train for the rollout of 5G, the next-generation wireless network.The tower climber training facility in Lewisville was among the stops that Federal Communications Commission member Brendan Carr made on his two-day trip to North Texas. He also visited a wireless manufacturing plant in Euless, went to a fiber deployment in Sherman and met with a telemedicine company in Lewisville. He delivered a speech in a ballroom of tower climbers and wireless infrastructure workers at a conference for the National Association of Tower Erectors in Grapevine. And he practiced a controlled descent of his own at the Ericsson Center of Excellence, the training facility built by the Swedish telecom firm near its North American headquarters in Plano. At every stop, his goal was the same: Evangelizing the new network's potential to transform the economy, companies' trajectories and people's lives.  Continue reading...