President Trump on Thursday ordered federal agencies to open up broad swaths of the wireless spectrum for public use, answering pleas from cellphone carriers and other companies seeking to build faster fifth-generation, or 5G, networks.
A presidential memorandum released Thursday launched a new White House spectrum strategy task force that will study ways to make more airwave licenses available. The memo also ordered federal agencies to report their future spectrum needs to the Department of Commerce, which will use the data...