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They have Huawei equipment is almost every cell tower installation to do that already.

moose_man 4y ago
Maybe some of the poorer networks have residual 3G equipment, but in general, the US has been cracking down on Huawei for a decade. They don't have a huge presence in the US.
Arubis 4y ago
What’s the service life on such equipment? Sales of new Huawei telecom equip have been banned outright in the US for a couple months. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-fcc-bans-equipment-sales-imports-zte-huawei-over-national-security-risk-2022-11-25/ https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-fcc-bans-e...
- PeterisP 4y ago
  Decades. Some hardware failure happens, but it's not that frequent, if it's like previous generations of cell technology, most of it will run until the operator chooses to shut down that particular service e.g. switching to a newer generation and freeing up the spectrum for it.
  - Aloha 4y ago
    Even with Huawei equipment fieled (which there isnt much left, Cricket and Clearwire were the largest incumbents for it, and those networks are gone) the BTS does not have network access to phone home, they're walled off with very very very non-routable IP's (as in stuff used on the pubic internet) - there are too many layers of access control for what was being alleged to work in a practical sense.
dilyevsky 4y ago
Not in the us/europe they don’t
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  Yes they do, in Eastern Europe.
  - dilyevsky 4y ago
    I meant europe that is still reachable by plane
    - ChuckNorris89 4y ago
      Huh? What's stopping anyone to reach Romania by plane? Or Bulgaria? Or Hungary? Or Slovakia? Or was it a joke I'm not American enough to understand?
      - dilyevsky 4y ago
        Thought you meant russia/belarus. Didn’t know they put them in bolgaria and co tho considering how low they go in price it makes sense
        ChuckNorris89 4y ago
        Eastern Europe is not just ex-USSR countries, and even there you can still travel by plane. Only Russia, Ukraine and Belarus have closed airspace.

Maybe some of the poorer networks have residual 3G equipment, but in general, the US has been cracking down on Huawei for a decade. They don't have a huge presence in the US.

Arubis 4y ago

What’s the service life on such equipment? Sales of new Huawei telecom equip have been banned outright in the US for a couple months. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-fcc-bans-equipment-sales-imports-zte-huawei-over-national-security-risk-2022-11-25/ https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-fcc-bans-e...

PeterisP 4y ago
Decades. Some hardware failure happens, but it's not that frequent, if it's like previous generations of cell technology, most of it will run until the operator chooses to shut down that particular service e.g. switching to a newer generation and freeing up the spectrum for it.
- Aloha 4y ago
  Even with Huawei equipment fieled (which there isnt much left, Cricket and Clearwire were the largest incumbents for it, and those networks are gone) the BTS does not have network access to phone home, they're walled off with very very very non-routable IP's (as in stuff used on the pubic internet) - there are too many layers of access control for what was being alleged to work in a practical sense.

dilyevsky 4y ago

Not in the us/europe they don’t

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
Yes they do, in Eastern Europe.
- dilyevsky 4y ago
  I meant europe that is still reachable by plane
  - ChuckNorris89 4y ago
    Huh? What's stopping anyone to reach Romania by plane? Or Bulgaria? Or Hungary? Or Slovakia? Or was it a joke I'm not American enough to understand?
    - dilyevsky 4y ago
      Thought you meant russia/belarus. Didn’t know they put them in bolgaria and co tho considering how low they go in price it makes sense
      - ChuckNorris89 4y ago
        Eastern Europe is not just ex-USSR countries, and even there you can still travel by plane. Only Russia, Ukraine and Belarus have closed airspace.