Industry Will Make Sure 5G Networks Are Secure, CTIA Says
The FCC would be ill-advised to impose any rules to shore up 5G security as it opens high-frequency bands for commercial use as part of its spectrum frontiers rulemaking, CTIA said in a filing Monday. The FCC has long supported…
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industry leadership and working groups like the Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council to address technical issues “affecting the entire global ecosystem,” the wireless association said. “CTIA urges the Commission to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the wireless industry on important and complex 5G security issues and encourage actions that can be taken in standards groups and by CSRIC,” CTIA said in the filing submitted to dockets including 14-177. Carriers are committed to ensuring that 5G is secure, the group said. Nokia is doing research on security for 5G networks and Ericsson has been working on 5G issues, CTIA said. Any move by the FCC while 5G is still nascent “would depart from that history and undermine ongoing global collaboration,” CTIA said. “Given the complex technical issues involved, FCC regulation also would be nearly impossible to execute and could have serious unintended consequences. The Commission should instead continue to rely on industry actions that can be taken in standards groups and by CSRIC to bring together the wireless ecosystem to continue work on emerging 5G architecture.”