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US Blocks Huawei From Building LTE Network

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-may-or-may-not-be-evil dept.

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. Huawei was in the news in Europe as well... by thrill12 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... for advertising with a lot of important and big customers' "success stories" (such as TGV) that were in fact never real customers of Huawei/were never worth a success story. Guess they really are trying hard to set foot 'here'. (http://www.automatiseringgids.nl/nieuws/2011/41/%E2%80%98huawei-jokt-over-europese-klanten%E2%80%99)

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    1. Re:Huawei was in the news in Europe as well... by WindBourne · · Score: 4, Informative

      Not surprised. Just like the 'Chinese success', it is all predicated on constant lies and deceptions. But considering that Huawei is Chinese gov (in fact, more Chinese gov, than America Air was US Gov). In fact, unless a company has outside participation, it is 100% owned AND MANAGED by the gov.

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    2. Re:Huawei was in the news in Europe as well... by m.ducharme · · Score: 4, Funny

      In fact, unless a company has outside participation, it is 100% owned AND MANAGED by the gov.

      Which is totally incompatible with the American model, where the government is 100% owned and managed by the corporations.

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  2. 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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  3. Re:US Blocks Huawei From Building LTE Network by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Cheap anti american b.s.
    They are banned by the UK & India, their "employees" were caught red-handed trying to steal info in Indonesia & India.
    Not to mention that they usually copy products from rivals such as Cisco.

    Seriously, have you any idea what a threat the Chinese government poses to the world? even though they love money now, the country is still run by totalitarian freaks. Do you think anyone at a Chinese corporation can stand up to the Chinese intelligence agencies and say "no"?

  4. Re:it's ok for the U.S. govt... by WindBourne · · Score: 5, Informative

    How did you get modded up? If we do wiretapping of telecom networks ESP. SECURED networks, in another nation, that would be called .... SPYING. And NO nation sees that as being legal.

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