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US Blocks Huawei From Building LTE Network

An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. government has cited national security as a reason not to let Chinese company Huawei build an LTE public safety network. They're worried about Huawei's close ties to the Chinese government and the threat of any devices Huawei manufactures being bugged. Of course, whoever gets the contract is going to be manufacturing their devices in China anyway, but it looks like a Chinese company won't be allowed to deploy the infrastructure."

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  1. US Blocks Huawei From Building LTE Network by omar.sahal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Makes you wonder sometimes why the US gets so suspicions of other nations some times! You need to look at an accusation sometimes and figure out if this is telling you more about the accuser than the accused!

  2. Re:Great by erroneus · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sounds great! Then we will be FORCED to bring labor back to the US and then there will be jobs and prosperity again.

    Money isn't as much about hoarding money as much as it is about circulating it.

  3. Re:Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Money isn't as much about hoarding money as much as it is about circulating it.

    Obviously you're not one of the 1% who owns the Republican Party.

  4. Re:it's ok for the U.S. govt... by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it's ok for the U.S. govt to *actually* have warrantless wiretapping, but it's not ok to have china *maybe* doing warrantless wiretapping?

    Under US laws? Yes.

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  5. Re:Emergency Response by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Difference is, Huawei notoriously counterfeited hardware for years. Highest profile example was Huawei v Cisco, Huawei basically ripped off the hardware and the software 1:1, hex edited their name on to the OS. Huawei does not deserve to be in our market at all.

  6. Re:Emergency Response by w_dragon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And at the time it was true of the Japanese products. And before that it was the Germans supplying the low-quality junk products. Today it's China, and tomorrow it will be someone else.