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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2018, @06:24PM
Consider what we created in World War II. We make nuclear weapons. That doesn't mean we want the whole rest of the world to have them. No, it isn't unethical or wrong for the rest of the world to want them, but we still aren't OK with that. We want the advantage, and we openly admit this.
That continues to today. It wouldn't be unethical or wrong for Haiti or the Bahamas to get nuclear weapons. We still don't want that.