Leonard Lance: “However, these past innovations pale in comparison to the potential 5G has to revolutionize wireless communications.”

But for the richest most powerful nation on earth, we can and should do better.

I commend the Commission and the members of the subcommittee for the good, bipartisan work that has occurred over the past year and a half.

The AIRWAVES Act includes a rural dividend, setting aside 10 percent of proceeds from future spectrum auctions to deploy wireless in unserved and underserved, often rural areas.

This unacceptable practice leaves counties and localities on the hook for maintaining and upgrading their systems, and this of course endangers public safety.