In 2013. For three decades, chairman wheeler has been involved in the sector as a chairman and entrepreneur. He has been a Venture Capitalist and lobbyist. He has served as president and ceo of both the National CableTelevision Association and the open position north the organization known as the ctia. As a journalist, i found him more interesting that a lifetime ago, he worked for syndicated columnist mark shields, a friend of mine. The osu version of the speakers press Club Luncheon series that brings you all here today. Given that chairman wheeler used to be an industry lobbyist, his record is rather surprising. Commissions the strongest rules in enforcing that neutrality. He find at t 1 million for tapping speed on unlimited data plans. He increased Competition Among the makers of cable boxes and work to get more internet options to people in rural areas. Chairman wheeler put the entire broadband industry under a stricter regime. He has done so many things that have angered his fellow. Mployers at the ncga and ctia they have sued the fcc during his tenure. He explains his actions by saying, i used to be an advocate for corporate interests, and i hope i was a good one, but today my client is the American People, and i want to be the best damn advocate that i can be. The leader in Wireless Technology and spectrum innovation, occupying the top spot in 4g Wireless Network utilization. 5g Wireless Networks will offer even faster services. Stakeholders around the world have begun shaping the new landscape to benefit they are national and commercial benefit their national and commercial interests. Today, chairman wheeler will share with the vision for 5g should be in a speech entitled of entitled the future of wireless. And gentlemen, join me in welcoming federal Communications Commission chairman tom wheeler. [applause] thank you very much, tommy. You certainly proved your journalistic credentials with some of that research that you dug up there. Thes an honor to be here at National Press club. Is an honor to be with my colleagues who really are the ones who make the things happened that i am talking about. June, the head of our office of engineering and technology. John, who is the head of our wireless bureau. And my colleague, larry strictly, larry strickley, we worked together like this on spectrum policy. So many familiar faces and friends in the audience. I am going to make the terrible decision to call out a couple. First is my good friend, a , it is alleague, ron real pleasure to see you sitting here. We have not seen each other for a long time. The other is hiding in the back, the man who started the spectrum revolution at the fcc, former chairman reed hunt. It was back in 1994 that this of opening more spectrum, creating more opportunity, and building what we are talking about today began, and i was under his leadership. But i am most pleased and surprised to find karen smith in the audience today. Karen had to change her name from Karen Wheeler [laughter] , fromeeler but my sister annapolis, who is no stranger to telecom issues herself, having been the executive director of techcore. Remember thatday . Netday . Karen organize volunteers throughout the country, and i was always out of her and what she did. [applause] mr. Wheeler a few months ago, i found myself in a situation that i never would have imagined when i became fcc chairman. I was in dallas, texas. I was at the helm of an excavator, a big piece of heavy machinery digging up dirt. Those of you who want to picture that seeing in your mind , yes, i was wearing a suit. [laughter] wearingler i was also a pair of Virtual Reality goggles, and i had not left the fcc. And while i may have been in washington physically, i can tell you, i was at the excavation site in dallas, 1400 miles away. In the mockup of the excavator and had complete control to the equipment 1400 miles away. , digging up dirt in dallas probably is not high on the list of transformational advancements that will define the 21st century. But i want you to think of something. Why dont you replace the heavy so anery with a scalpel, worldclass surgeon can move from hospital to hospital without leaving her surgical suite . Sitting int students a classroom, taking a virtual tour inside the human body . We have all heard amazing things, stories like that in the past, but making these kinds of activities possible without a fat cable leading to the Virtual Reality headset could not be accomplished because of three limiting factors. One, the speed of the wireless connection. We all know the difference in fibermance of a direct connection compared to a wireless connection. The next generation of wireless must be mobile fiber. Faster than what we are used to today will stop today. The second limiting issue is responsiveness. The surgeons scout the surgeons scalpel needs to be immediately responsive, not a blink later. The technical folks call this latency. It currently averages about 10 or one 100 of a second. That may sound pretty fast to you and me, but it is a snails pace in computing. Latency needs to be less than one millisecond. Less than 1 1000 of a millisecond, to provide for realtime interaction. And the third limiting factor is spectrum capacity, because if you are going to have that kind of high speed and low latency, you have to have the ability for Digital Information to race down broad chunks of spectrum. Today. Es of what we know to overcome these challenges, and to seize the opportunity before us, we need the next generation of Wireless Connectivity, a fifth generation, or 5g. If the United States is going to continue to be a world leader in wireless, we need to speed the deployment of 5g here on our shores. The Virtual Reality example that i gave is but one sample of the effects of highspeed, low latency connectivity. Leadership inan 5g most the a must be a national priority. Vr example i gave you was just one example of how the driving force of the 21st century will be powerful processing centralized in the connected wirelessly to clients. Autonomous vehicles will be controlled in the cloud. Smart city energy grids, transportation networks, and Water Systems will be controlled in the cloud. Immersive education and entertainment will come from the cloud. Wont come toes pass unless the pathway to and lowlatency,d is ultrafast, and secure. Inwe have learned anything the generational march through Wireless Connectivity, it is that we have always underestimated the innovation that would result from new generations of Wireless Networks. Generation, wireless 1g, was voice. 1980s, mckenzie told at t there would be thousands of cell phone subscribers by the turn of the 21st century. It turns out there were millions. The second generation, two g 2g, allowed both talk and text. No one understood the power of text. To shift away an entire group, to a developing world tool for banking the on bank, ed, innovators seized on the capabilities of texting in unimaginable ways. ,he third generation, 3g married wireless and Digital Networks to connecting with other new technological the other new Technological Developments of the time, the internet, in a limited way. Technology, 4g, completed that migration, enabling higher speeds for including video. Again, greater capability in the network led to unanticipated innovation. Without 4g, there were not have , or snapchat,uber or instagram. The list keeps going on. But i have listed some examples earlier, a moment ago, about what 5g makes possible. But if anyone tells you that they know the details about what 5g is going to become, run the other way. Because it is the capacity to new capability that will determine what our future looks like. Yes, 5g will connect the internet of everything. If something can be connected, it will be connected in a 5g world, but with the predictions of hundreds of billions of microchips connected in products from pill bottles to plant waters, you can be sure of only , the biggest internet of things application has yet to be imagined. Yes, 5g will connect the uncompetitive connect the unconnected and compete with the uncompetitive. Millions cannot i access cannot access highspeed internet because it is too costly to wire it to the home. Talk lately about using 5g connectivity to expand highspeed Broadband Service to ,ural areas, and fiber fast Wireless Connectivity will deliver the goal of competitive highspeed Internet Access for consumers. But lets stop the imagining for a moment. Heres the key. The interconnected world that we live in today is the result of decisions made a decade ago. The interconnected world of the future will be the result of decisions we must make today. Is a national thursday,and why this i am circulating to my colleagues proposed new rules that will identify and open up vast amounts of spectrum for 5g applications. We call it the spectrum frontiers proceeding, and we will vote on it july 14. Our 5g proposal is the final trifectathe spectrum low band, midband, and high band airwaves, that will open up more spectrum, speed out the rollout of next generation Wireless Networks, and redefine Network Connectivity for years to come. I am confident the actions will lead to a cornucopia of usesicipated, innovative and will generate tens of billions of dollars in economic activity. But lets revisit that spectrum strategy for a moment. Thatnumber one is technology should drive the policy, rather than the policy drive the technology. 5g is not one for thing, it is many things. Moores law in Wireless Connectivity requires Smart Antenna systems, new, more efficient transmission formats, network virtualization, and touch more. And much more. Side, thesepectrum technologies require new access to spectrum in multiple bands. The wireless future will not be a onesizefitsall future. So our spectrum trifecta begins with low band spectrum that is optimal for widearea coverage applications. Are in very moment, we the midst of the worlds first incentive auction to make greenfield low band spectrum available. The broadcasters have stepped up to bring spectrum to the market. Shortly, the Wireless Industry will have the opportunity to fulfill their request for more spectrum with this beachfront spectrum. Of thed spectrum is kind jan brady of the spectrum world. [laughter] mr. Wheeler the overlooked middle child. [laughter] mr. Wheeler but its characteristics enable an order of magnitude increase in spectrum efficiency. Recent Services Using newarks in sharing tools to open up new midband spectrum, and we need to continue looking at other midband opportunities. Spectrum thatend will be the focus of our actions next month will stop these bands, the high bands next month. Data bands offer high rates with low latency, and they are now becoming unlocked because of technological advances in computing. If the Commission Approves my proposal next month, the United States will be the first country in the world to open up high band spectrum for 5g networks and applications. Damn important, because it means that u. S. Companies will be the first out of the gate. Formulabe repeating the that made the United States the world leader in 4g. It is a simple formula. Lead the world in spectrum availability, encouraged and encourage and protect innovationdriving competition, and stay out of the way of technological development. Unlike some countries, we do not believe that we should spend the next couple of years studying itt 5g should be, or how should operate, or how to allocate spectrum, based on those assumptions. Like the examples i gave earlier, the future has a way of reinventing itself, turning innovators loose is far preferable to expecting committees and regulators to define the future. We wont wait for the standards to be the first to be first developed in the sometimes arduous standardsetting process , or in government led activity. Make ample will spectrum available and then rely on the private sectorled process for producing technical standards best suited for those frequencies and use cases. Leadership in networks leads to leadership in uses, which quickly moves across borders. This National Leadership is the creation of a homefield advantage similar to what we knew in 4g. But the main value of 5g will intellectualin property. The main value of 5g, by orders of magnitude, will be in consumption rather than production. Be in material gains and improvements in the quality of life and economic opportunity. That would also emphasize the development of 5g is not anything like an international zerosum game. Rather, it is a contest in which everyone can win. , and fat of others, that of others, redounds to the benefit, literally, of everyone in the world. Seeing industry gearing up to seize this opportunity. I have seen 5g hardware and firmware. The technology is here. It is also important to 5g technology will be a constant evolution. It would be a mistake to think that 5g can be frozen in a snapshot. It is more like a video. , allmany new scenes building on each other. 5g systems and standards for will be continually improving and evolving. And other network side, verizon and at t tell us they will begin deploying 5g trials in 2017, and these efforts will help inform the standards process by putting stakes in the ground. The first commercial appointments will be expanded in 2012. Requires that we act to pave the path today. Rules i amw proposing, we take our most significant step yet down the path to our 5g future. The big game changer is that 5g will use much higher frequency bands than previously thought applicable for other applications. Such signals have physical properties that are both in limitation and a strength. Iny tend to travel best narrow and straight lines, and they do not go through physical objects as well. That there are a narrow signals in an urban environment tend to balance around holdings and other obstacles, making it difficult to connect to a moving point. But there has been the development of new antennas that aim and amplifies singles amplify signals, with sophisticated processing that allows a moving device to pickup all the signals that are bouncing around and create one coherent connection. To make this work, the 5g buildout is going to be very infrastructureintensive, requiring massive deployment of small cells. But it also opens up unprecedented opportunities for frequency reuse in denser, more localized networks. The ability to use this highfrequency spectrum opens much bigger chunks of spectrum. Licensed lows of band spectrum are usually five to 10 megahertz in with. Idth. Which with 5g, however, we are talking blocks of spectrum that are at least 200 megahertz in width. This will allow the networks to carry much more traffic per user. Gigabits of throughput in place of megabits of throughput. Up theses, by opening higherfrequency bands, we are making available more licensed spectrum to mobile than in the , dating backstory to recount, that the fcc to ed hunt, thated the fcc has made available. Announcer at this point, there were microphone issues, so we lost a moment of comments. Satellite and terrestrial stakeholders have suggested a range of sharing spectrumand the draft frontier ordered six to provide a balanced solution that addresses the needs of both parties. I am confident that we will adopt rules to enable satellite, terrestrial, and federal operations to coexist and thrive. Thiske sure that we have connectivity with high band spectrum will require a lot more small cells, which means a lot more antenna setting decisions by local governments. That is why it is important that the commission has strengthened its environmental presentation rules and tightened the shot clock for revising application reviews. Play anvernments will Important Role in determining how we fulfill this national priority. In addition, all these small cells need to be connected, so we will need a lot more backho le. That is a challenge we will address with our Business Data Services, the kind of dedicated access the wireless providers need to connect cell towers and antennas to their networks. Connections can be as much as 30 of the cost of operating a Wireless Network. With the additional sites required to support millimeter with spectrum, that is likely to increase as much as 50 . Competitionareas, ackhole supply of b remains limited, and i can translate to higher prices for Wireless Networks and consumers. Doesof competition not just heard the deployment of Wireless Networks today, it threatens as well the delay of ,he buildout of 5g networks with the demand of many more b ackhole connections. By the end of this year, the commission will take up the all the supported by nations leading wireless carriers, save one, that will encourage innovation and investment in Business Data Services, while ensuring the lack of competition in some places cannot be used to hold 5g hostages. 5g hostage. Our lesson from our previous experiences is that the network must be secure. This is the third leg of the stool. New platforms, systems, software, and technologies will mean new vulnerabilities. Cyber Security Issues must be addressed during the design phase of the entire 5g ecosystem, including devices. This will place a premium on collaboration against all stakeholders. We continue an approach that emphasizes the industrydevelop er security industrydev