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

Posted by BeauHD on from the given-the-boot dept.

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.

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  1. Turning Huawei into a cuss word by rmdingler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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    1. Re:Turning Huawei into a cuss word by gweihir · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

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      Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
    2. Re:Turning Huawei into a cuss word by rmdingler · · Score: 2

      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.

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      Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

      Ernest Hemingway

    3. Re:Turning Huawei into a cuss word by gweihir · · Score: 2

      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.

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  2. Not quite by bug1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    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...