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"Foreign Telecom Gear" really only ever seems to mean Huawei and China in these proclamations. The fact is the majority of Telecom gear is foreign-made with re
by bogomipz 7y ago
"Foreign Telecom Gear" really only ever seems to mean Huawei and China in these proclamations.
The fact is the majority of Telecom gear is foreign-made with regards to the US. To wit:
Alcatel-Lucent - France
Nokia - Finland
Siemens - Germany
Samsung - Korea
Fujitsu and NEC - Japan
If the US were to truly enforce a domestic US-only vendor selection it would be limited to Cienna, Cisco, Qualcomm and Motorola. And to my knowledge none of those four companies are making 5G switching gear.
- HillaryBriss 7y agoisn't all this stuff actually manufactured in China?
- culot 7y agoDepends on the component or product probably. Some is, some isn't.
- nickpsecurity 7y agoIt could get worse if you consider many companies have R&D centers in countries that like IP spying. That includes Russia and China. For China, true more often if hardware development is involved. So, Trump gonna require all potentially-subversive, foreign, R&D centers to be shut down with it all imported to America? Then require them to be US citizens born here with low risk of foreign influence? And then paid well with stable lifestyle with lower odds of bribery or blackmail? I think he has no idea what it takes to reduce foreign risk. Besides, the so-called APT's are doing a number on our Fortune 500 companies with techniques like spear fishing with PDF-looking executables. I mean, how much will blocking Chinese equipment even help such companies? ;)