Intelligence agencies across the English-speaking world are in widespread agreement about the race to roll out next-generation mobile networks. Top officials from Australia, the UK, Canada and the United States have all said recently that using Chinese telecom giant Huawei’s equipment poses a national security threat.
For service providers in those countries, going along with that assessment comes with a catch. There is no good alternative.
The United States, for its part, offers no competitive fifth-generation wireless network equipment. Europe’s Nokia and Ericsson, meanwhile, are both struggling to catch up to Huawei. South Korea’s Samsung is investing heavily in the area but has come to the party late.
Huawei has been able to offer equipment and services at a fraction of the price of its competitors – a feat that has prompted accusations from both the United States and the European Union that it benefited from unfair government subsidies. The firm has grown exponentially in the process to leapfrog Nokia and Ericsson and become the world’s largest telecommunications equipment supplier by a wide margin.
This is despite the fact that they have long been almost entirely cut out of the US market.
UK executives summed up the sorry predicament of the US-led effort to boycott Huawei, per The Wall Street Journal:
“Executives at one major British wireless carrier say Huawei can deliver products nearly a year before Nokia and Ericsson can offer hardware with comparable technology. They said they were telling U.K. officials, who plan to decide by spring 2019 whether to exclude major Huawei equipment from the country, that blacklisting Huawei could delay by nine months the U.K.’s launch of 5G, the coming generation of superfast wireless technology.”
Nokia and Ericsson, the report says, are also wary that they may be shut out of China’s market if they take advantage of Huawei being shut out of other markets. Indeed, at 15,000, Nokia’s workforce inside the China region is about double that in its home base of Finland. Ericsson, meanwhile, has 12,000 employees in northeast Asia.
Australia and New Zealand have already signed on to the US boycott of Huawei’s 5G gear, leaving their service providers with no choice but to wait for lagging and more expensive alternatives. But there still appears to be resistance in the UK, France and Germany. 2019 will be the year when companies in those countries either hit the ground running with Huawei or are reluctantly forced to save other firms from a terminal decline into irrelevance.
Mr. Rik Ruiters is a man with a few words and a man with a few words always tell the truth. 🙂
Vincent Harris Vinny buddy, you can pretend you don’t comprehend what Mr. Sun wrote, because the things he has written drove straight home smucked you right cross your face. Fuhgeddaaboudit, Vinny. Besides, your command of English aren’t all that hot your-damn-self.
Vincent Harris Vinny buddy, you can pretend you don’t comprehend what Mr. Sun wrote, because the things he has written drove straight home smucked you right cross your face. Fuhgeddaaboudit, Vinny. Besides, your command of English aren’t all that hot your-damn-self.
Mr. Young, tell it like it is.
Mr. Young, tell it like it is.
David KhooSock it to him, brother Khoo! 🙂
David KhooSock it to him, brother Khoo! 🙂
Yue Fei, you got it right this time. 🙂
Yue Fei, you got it right this time. 🙂
The encryption will be at higher le vels. That’s why the US wojld prefer a "friendlier" supplier.
The encryption will be at higher le vels. That’s why the US wojld prefer a "friendlier" supplier.
Also with 5g it will be extremely hard for the US to spy because
Also with 5g it will be extremely hard for the US to spy because
This is actually good because now the non chinese companies will be forced to step up their game and 5-10 years from now, huawei’s lead would be irrelevant or even placed into oblivion.
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It is hard to trust the chinese government as they will do everything to remove US out of its place. I rather choose US or any other powerhouse countries that are non communist and has democracy in its core rather than china and its allies.
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But that does not mean i hate the chinese people, i have chinese friends, im asian too. Just its government.
This is actually good because now the non chinese companies will be forced to step up their game and 5-10 years from now, huawei’s lead would be irrelevant or even placed into oblivion.
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It is hard to trust the chinese government as they will do everything to remove US out of its place. I rather choose US or any other powerhouse countries that are non communist and has democracy in its core rather than china and its allies.
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But that does not mean i hate the chinese people, i have chinese friends, im asian too. Just its government.
Lawarance Young The iPhone manufactured in China that means the US gave them part of technology
Lawarance Young The iPhone manufactured in China that means the US gave them part of technology
Richard Truong Germany has quietly decided not to use Chinese technology. They also have very large sausages, called Wurst.
Richard Truong Germany has quietly decided not to use Chinese technology. They also have very large sausages, called Wurst.
Rik Ruiters Chinese haven’t yet landed n the Moon…. but they will make excellent astronauts…. small, no hair, not big limbs to be floating about and plenty to send up in case the first ones dont come back…. after all the CCP dont care about human lives.