While doors are closing in some major markets for Chinese telecom giant Huawei’s 5G ambitions, one door with more potential scale for its services than any other has just been opened.
After being left out of initial Indian government invitations to participate in 5G (fifth-generation wireless) trials, Huawei has now been given the green light to take part, The Times of India reported on Tuesday.
India’s telecom secretary also complimented Huawei for helping to develop India’s telecom sector.
The Chinese firm – now the world’s largest maker of telecommunications equipment – has been ostracized in a host of developed markets amid a US-led campaign to discredit Huawei citing security concerns.
But if Huawei can beat out the competition to provide network equipment for 5G in India, some of those markets participating in the US-led boycott could look like peanuts in the future.
Nokia, the Finnish telecom equipment maker that is competing with Huawei, Ericsson and Samsung for the Indian prize, said this week that India needed 5G more than all of Europe.
“Even if you only have 1% of your subscribers’ base taking the service in India, that’s still 3 to 4 million people, and in Europe, that’s 100% of your subscriber base in any country,” Phil Twist, vice-president of Networks Marketing and Communications at Nokia, said in an interview with The Economic Times.
“So there is a huge opportunity and then an unserved market opportunity,” Twist stressed. He said he saw no reason India will not be able to launch 5G by 2020.
This is good policy. Competition is important. India will benefit from cost effective and advanced 5G networks. Economic growth will be boosted.
This is good policy. Competition is important. India will benefit from cost effective and advanced 5G networks. Economic growth will be boosted.
They don’t like you, they find anywhere excuses to bann you, simple is that. Luckily we still have friends in this world. They gonna have much better equipment with much lower price. Try compete with that.
They don’t like you, they find anywhere excuses to bann you, simple is that. Luckily we still have friends in this world. They gonna have much better equipment with much lower price. Try compete with that.
India will feel the intense pressure from its Five-eyed Master to drop into line on 5G.
India will feel the intense pressure from its Five-eyed Master to drop into line on 5G.
lol.. thats wont be the case.. we dont let any other nation to hamper our soverignity..
lol.. thats wont be the case.. we dont let any other nation to hamper our soverignity..
Courageous by whistle-blower Edward Snowden have previously revealed NSA cyber-espionage programs, which have stolen hundreds of millions of Chinese mobile phone text messages; broken into the crucial IT backbone system at China’s Tsinghua University which connects to large numbers of important institutes and research labs; and monitored the communications of important Chinese officials.
Courageous by whistle-blower Edward Snowden have previously revealed NSA cyber-espionage programs, which have stolen hundreds of millions of Chinese mobile phone text messages; broken into the crucial IT backbone system at China’s Tsinghua University which connects to large numbers of important institutes and research labs; and monitored the communications of important Chinese officials.