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Verizon Cancels Plans to Sell Huawei Phone Due to U.S. Government Pressure

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday January 31 2018, @09:31AM   Printer-friendly

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Verizon reportedly follows AT&T's lead and cancels plans to sell Huawei's latest phone amid fears of Chinese spying

Verizon is following AT&T's lead and cancelling plans to sell Huawei's Mate 10 Pro smartphone that boasts support for the upcoming super-fast 5G network, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday.

Verizon's decision is reportedly based on political pressure from the US government, which is seeing a reinvigorated fear of spying from China as US regulators urged an investigation of Chinese-made telecom equipment in December 2017. It's the same reason AT&T dropped its deal with Huawei to offer the Mate 10 Pro on January 8.

Huawei's Mate 10 Pro with 5G networking capabilities seemingly falls under the category of Chinese-made telecom equipment under investigation, as the company has been accused of having ties with the Chinese government.

Previously: U.S. Lawmakers Urge AT&T to Cut Ties With Huawei

Related: U.S. Government Reportedly Wants to Build a 5G Network to Thwart Chinese Spying

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2018, @11:27AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2018, @11:27AM (#630907)

    "What's the point in more bandwidth?

    5G is particularly pointless for anyone on a capped data package, which is virtually everyone."

    The point is, now you can blow through the cap in 10 minutes instead of needing to wait an hour or two! Do I hear "weaponized autoplay video ads"?

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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday February 01 2018, @11:24AM

    by Wootery (2341) on Thursday February 01 2018, @11:24AM (#631424)

    A valid concern, but it'll probably be ordinary ads that do it, not malicious intent.

    Some otherwise-decent mobile websites still have autoplaying videos, and browsers don't block them! e.g. TheOnion.com on Safari for iPhone.

    A thought occurs: what if Chrome for Android had an on-by-default policy of refusing to download more than 1MB of data for a website? Perhaps tune it more finely, say, no more than 500KB of JavaScript, but no cap on images or video.