Some Big Tech Firms Cut Employees' Access To Huawei, Muddying 5G Rollout (reuters.com) 58
Some of the world's biggest tech companies have told their employees to stop talking about technology and technical standards with counterparts at Huawei in response to the recent U.S. blacklisting of the Chinese tech firm, Reuters reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. From a report: Chipmakers Intel and Qualcomm, mobile research firm InterDigital and South Korean carrier LG Uplus have restricted employees from informal conversations with Huawei, the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker, the sources said. Such discussions are a routine part of international meetings where engineers gather to set technical standards for communications technologies, including the next generation of mobile networks known as 5G.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has not banned contact between companies and Huawei. On May 16, the agency put Huawei on a blacklist, barring it from doing business with U.S. companies without government approval, then a few days later it authorized U.S. companies to interact with Huawei in standards bodies through August "as necessary for the development of 5G standards." The Commerce Department reiterated that position on Friday in response to a question from Reuters.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has not banned contact between companies and Huawei. On May 16, the agency put Huawei on a blacklist, barring it from doing business with U.S. companies without government approval, then a few days later it authorized U.S. companies to interact with Huawei in standards bodies through August "as necessary for the development of 5G standards." The Commerce Department reiterated that position on Friday in response to a question from Reuters.
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One question (Score:3, Interesting)
Have any of the accusations actually been proven? Or don't we do that anymore since 9/11/2001? We're just supposed to take the politician's word? Is that how it works?
We live in mad times...
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Countless stories about Huawei corporate hijinks if you care to Google for them. Or just Bing It, I don't judge.
Have you proven even one of them false, apologist? (Score:1, Interesting)
https://phoneradar.com/top-9-evidence-of-huaweis-backdoor-ip-theft-alleged-hacking-reports/ + + + https://qz.com/1535995/the-full-list-of-crimes-huawei-is-accused-of-committing-by-the-us/
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In 2007, the FBI arrested Motorola engineer Hanjuan Jin who was found with $30,000 in cash, a bag full of classified Motorola documents, and a one-way ticket to Beijing. The investigation revealed that the engineer was not only with Motorola but also with another company called Lemko. Lemko was founded by Shaowei Pan who
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Color me unimpressed, sounds like everyday business for all of them, not just Huawei. Accusations flying everywhere, with unverifiable "evidence". There's lots of backdoor shit in the American stuff too. What is there that makes Huawei so special or any different from the rest of the Chinese shit? Whose toes did they step on to deserve all this?
You people are all full of crap. You believe the same kind of lies that got us into two wars with no end.
A trade war disguised as security concerns (Score:4, Insightful)
This is what it looks like to me. Huawei is a threat to dominance by USA companies and so the USA government has made up, or overblown, security issues and used this as an excuse to try to damage Huawei in the USA and other countries. This is very anti competitive and to run around World Trade Organization rules that prohibit discrimination - national security is an allowed exception ... thus the Trumped up security claims, but there is little evidence for these security issues.
Yes: Huawei is subject to Chinese law and would have to spy if ordered to. But USA companies are subject to the Patriot Act [wikipedia.org] which compels them to do likewise - many countries have similar laws. USA companies kit (eg Cisco) has documented cases of deliberate security back doors. Many vendors (Chinese, American, & others) have poor security practices - but that is a different issue.
There are problems with China: it has a reputation for playing loose with intellectual property, this is getting better but has some way to go. Also government subsidies and ignoring environmental concerns give Chinese companies an unfair advantage. Trump is right to address these problems, but I do not think that starting a trade war is the right way. China is not the only country to do this but is now an economically large country and so needs to play ball.
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Wow you are angry, but being rude does not make what you say correct.
Most of what you talk about is IP infringement - this I did say is a problem with Chinese companies. The one backdoor that you talk about (claim #9, Vodafone) was a telnet service [theregister.co.uk] available to the internal LAN only. Yes: it should not have been there, but this sort of thing was common then, ie others also used telnet to configure kit, etc. So: probably sloppy coding rather than a deliberate security back door.
Tell me: how does stopping Hua
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You answer with a sound bite that sounds good but does not contain any real information.
Who is paying your bills ? You are arguing but hide who you are.
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It's more likely that Huawei will chafe at any restrictions to licenses from ARM than anything else. They seem to have maneuvered around that problem partially, thanks to SoftBank.
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In regards to spying, it doesn't matter if "everybody does it". It's the responsibility of our government to look after our own. Although we spy as well, our targets are responsible for their own and should act accordingly.
In a town of thieves, every door is locked.
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I agree that there is much in China that I do not like (think: Tiananman Square [telegraph.co.uk] or detention of Muslims [reuters.com]) but that it not what we are talking about here. Yes: the rest of the world must tell China that its human rights record is not acceptable.
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Words can help, but Human rights not the issue (Score:2)
Actually, words can help, and the lack of words is deafening.
There are no words coming from Trump because I doubt if he is even aware of the human rights issues in China. What He does care about is that companies complain about dubious competition. And also that China is a rising power with an expansionist foreign policy.
That said, the Chinese human rights issue is why the left does not really care about Huawei. If Trump went after, say, Nokia, there would be a much stronger response. And maybe disentan
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Who is dying for 5G? (Score:4, Insightful)
Honest question, is anyone rally just dying to get 5G for their phone? Is 4G not enough? I keep getting the feeling that 5G is being pushed by companies but there isn't any actual demand for it.
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Honest question, is anyone rally just dying to get 5G for their phone? Is 4G not enough? I keep getting the feeling that 5G is being pushed by companies but there isn't any actual demand for it.
Actually there is a huge demand for 5G ... from the handset and equipment manufacturers that need to prop up their stock prices.
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In busy areas there isn't enough bandwidth to go around on 4G. Tourist spots, for example, where everyone is taking photos and videos that are automatically synced to the cloud and then posted on social media.
It will also be nice for people on laptops who will be able to get near broadband speeds. The free wifi is typically pretty crappy.
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Those sound like rich people problems. Seriously, who can even afford the bill for browsing the web over 4G all the time let alone 5G?
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Well it costs about â7/month for unlimited mobile data here, which tends to be popular with poor people using hand-me-down phones and not paying for home broadband.
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Well it costs about â7/month for unlimited mobile data here
5G sounds great for... places taking "â" for payment. However, the article is about the US where data rates are expensive and there is no unlimited data for anything.