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Washington Asks Allies to Drop Huawei
The U.S. government has initiated an extraordinary outreach campaign to foreign allies, trying to persuade wireless and internet providers in these countries to avoid telecommunications equipment from China's Huawei Technologies Co., according to people familiar with the situation.
American officials have briefed their government counterparts and telecom executives in friendly countries where Huawei equipment is already in wide use, including Germany, Italy and Japan, about what they see as cybersecurity risks, these people said. The U.S. is also considering increasing financial aid for telecommunications development in countries that shun Chinese-made equipment, some of these people say.
Also: The US is warning other countries against using Huawei's 5G tech
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Sunday November 25 2018, @02:34PM
As previously mentioned [soylentnews.org] last time this came up, this isn't the consumer market but the ISP market where equipment is tested to specs over periods of months before entering deployment and must be approved by national agencies that regulate the spectrum at the very least.
Maybe in the consumer market. But in the ISP market that's clearly not the case as US corporations are competing by convincing countries to ban ZTE and Huawei on (dubious?) security grounds through USG channels.
Anyhow, India joined [zdnet.com] the ban while Germany, Japan and Italy are deliberating.
There's a better Reuters coverage of the subject is focusing on the 5g spectrum auctions and the code review Hauwei equipment is undergoing: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-telecoms-huawei-exclusive/exclusive-chinas-huawei-opens-up-to-german-scrutiny-ahead-of-5g-auctions-idUSKCN1MX1VB [reuters.com]
The way I see it this is all just the same old trade wars. Back in April USG failed to get Hauwei off the game board by implicating them in Iranian trade sanction violations like they did with ZTE (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-huawei-doj/u-s-probing-huawei-for-possible-iran-sanctions-violations-sources-idUSKBN1HW1YG). So, now the State Department is spreading FUD to scare (or force by convincing governments to ban) ISPs into bidding for low-frequency ranges since American companies mostly focused their patents and production on those. Thus, when the dust settles and it becomes clear Hauwei and ZTE aren't spying on anyone, it would be too late since the ISPs would be already invested in the infrastructure and so they'd be forced to buy non-Chinese equipment.
But overall we need to remind ourselves trade wars are about lose leading and the objective isn't to compete against China as it's about bleeding them dry in preparations for the negotiations table. The only companies benefiting from all of this are the likes of the European Nokia and Ericsson who win bids from third parties that don't want to pick sides and don't trust either parties' equipment over the mutual allegations. It also doesn't help the NSA and CIA been caught backdooring ISP gear on a half dozen occasions in the last couple of years...
So, fun times for speculators!
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