Kristian Stout Quoted in Communications Daily on U.S. Engagement in Global 5G Standard-Setting
A recent article in Communications Daily examines a U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission report regarding spectrum allocation and global 5G competition. The piece features ICLE Innovation Policy Director Kristian Stout, who discusses the necessity of United States participation in international standard-setting organizations. Read the full piece here.
Kristian Stout, innovation policy director at the International Center for Law & Economics, told us the report is right that the U.S. must remain “deeply engaged” on standard setting. “Institutions like the ITU matter because they shape the technical and regulatory environment in which global wireless markets develop,” he said. It would be a mistake for the U.S. “to treat those venues as peripheral or to allow them to drift toward reflecting primarily Chinese preferences.” The government also should be “more consistently present” in the process, he added.