The towering stakes in the race to develop and roll out the fifth generation of mobile communications or 5G have been amplified, especially for the United States and China as tensions between them worsen.
Possibly a multitrillion-dollar business, 5G technology has the potential to influence critical infrastructure such as planes, oil pipelines and power stations, analysts said.
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