Many politicians and suppliers in the USA believe they can harness Open RAN and cloud-based 5G architectures to pivot the mobile networks supply chain back to their hi-tech industry, and away from those of China (and implicitly, the Nordics or Japan). But the 5G battle lines are, to some extent, laid down, while 6G still has everything to play for, and there are various initiatives – from Department of Defense projects to government funds – to make 6G a US-driven set of standards. However, a new trade group, the Next G Alliance, set up to manage North America’s progress to 6G, is not taking the America-first view, but will be led by AT&T’s CTO Andre Fuetsch and Ericsson’s Jan Söderström…