US Firm Wins Bid To Block Huawei From Subsea Pacific Cables (theregister.co.uk)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: An American company is to build a series of undersea cables linking Australia to China after the Aussie government put its foot down and kicked Huawei off the contract. Building on our reports from last year that Australia had blocked Huawei from building a 4,000km cable between Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, U.S. company TE Subcom has reportedly won the deal to build the link.

"All options for meshing the Pacific Islands are good for the development of the economies of these countries," Keir Preedy, chief executive of the Solomon Island Submarine Cable Company, told Reuters. The company is developing the Solomons' new cable. In addition to the Aus-PNG-Solomons route previously announced, TE Subcom will build a cable spur to Hong Kong -- Chinese territory. "It is due for completion in 2022 and also includes a possible trans-Pacific branch to Los Angeles," the newswire stated.

Comments

Turning Huawei into a cuss word

[rmdingler]

We could argue compromised Chinese technology vs compromised US tech companies until we're blue in the face, but whoever's in charge of turning Huawei into a cautionary tale is winning, and not by a small margin.

Re:Turning Huawei into a cuss word

[gweihir]

This is properly called "corruption", because it funnels money to worse offerings. Corruption is always strong with those that have or crave power, because they have no integrity.

Re: Turning Huawei into a cuss word

[Anonymous Coward]

Story must have been edited by a Huawei hater

Re:Turning Huawei into a cuss word

[rmdingler]

Political corruption always exists, as powerful interests lobby powerful governments to do their bidding.

Worse offerings is an amplifier predicated on the side you find yourself rooting for. Integrity is an admirable trait in many regards, yet sociopathy is an advantageous trait in high stakes game theory.

Re:Turning Huawei into a cuss word

[Anonymous Coward]

Political corruption exists more in people that do not want to work for the public (what is described in the job application), they are private politicians.

Re:Turning Huawei into a cuss word

[Dunbal]

What is the caution supposed to be? Your interpretation may be very different from mine.

Re:Turning Huawei into a cuss word

[gweihir]

Worse offerings is an amplifier predicated on the side you find yourself rooting for.

Haha, funny. You just predicted there can be no rational decisions. As an engineer, I find that pretty clueless and insulting to my profession. But I have gotten used to it. The irrational masses do not respect those that actually understand how things work, because they interfere with their misconceptions.

Integrity is an admirable trait in many regards, yet sociopathy is an advantageous trait in high stakes game theory.

Game theory is a limited playing field where you walk out with your winnings and losses. In any closed system (such as a society, for example), people using gaming theory for their decisions have to be carefully monitored and controlled or they eventually kill everybody. Hence integrity is a necessary quality for anybody that can be valuable in something larger than the individual.

Re:Turning Huawei into a cuss word

[Type44Q]

Spot on!

Re:Turning Huawei into a cuss word

[gweihir]

Thanks.

Re:Turning Huawei into a cuss word

[gweihir]

This is about engineering products. If you think evaluating their relative merits is "subjective", then you are utterly clueless. But what can you expect from AC scum.

Not quite

[bug1]

The Coral Sea Cable System (CSCS), being funded largely by Australian Government is replacing the build Huawei was initially planning on building. CSCS is being built by Vocus/Alcatel.
https://www.coralseacablesyste...
https://www.submarinecablemap....

This new cable also has branches to PNG/Solomons (and everywhere else), its being pushed by the same guy who did Hawaiki, which is AU-NZ-US
https://www.itnews.com.au/news...

Re:Not quite

[Anonymous Coward]

Wonder if the new contractor will subcontract the job to Huawei...

China should put a stop to this cable !!

[Anonymous Coward]

An American company is to build a series of undersea cables linking Australia to China after the Aussie government put its foot down and kicked Huawei off the contract

If I were the Chinese government I would put a stop to this cable.

China should no longer tolerate any more discriminatory practices from Australia !!

Re:China should put a stop to this cable !!

[bug1]

Australian government has nothing to do with this cable which is due for completion in 2022

Australian government blocked Huawei from a previous cable to be completed in 2020 due to security concerns about equipment at Sydney landing point (rightly or wrongly), but they paid A$100m to fund the cable themselves (CSCS).

Hypocrits

[SuperDre]

Well at least now we know for certain the a goverment is listening in on those lines, the US... With huawei there still hasn't been presented one shred of evidrnce the chinese goverment is capable of spying through huawei's hardware, but with US hardware we already have enoug evidence of them spying on everybody, including it's own allies..

Re:From bad to worse

[xenobyte]

They went from a company that may possibly install backdoors to one that will certainly do so.

No, it went from a company that will certainly install backdoors to benefit someone else to one that equally certainly will do so, but primarily to benefit our side.