Radiation concerns halt Brussels 5G development, for now

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I am actually surprised that someone has put a stop to this in Europe. You might be led to think that there are people at those levels who care about the People. You've guessed it, I'm a skeptic.

"I cannot welcome such technology if the radiation standards, which must protect the citizen, are not respected, 5G or not," Environment minister Céline Fremault (CDH) told Bruzz. "The people of Brussels are not guinea pigs whose health I can sell at a profit. We cannot leave anything to doubt," she added.

A pilot project is not feasible with the current radiation standards, and Fremault told Bruzz that she does not intend to make an exception.

5G stopped ... for NOW.

 

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Trump had this to say about 5G ...

Trump says he does not want government to lead 5G effort

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on United States 5G deployment in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., April 12, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he does not want government to lead the effort to deploy next-generation 5G wireless networks.

“In the United States our approach is private-sector driven and private-sector led. The government doesn’t have to spend lots of money,” Trump said at a White House event on 5G deployment.

“As you probably heard, we had another alternative of doing it that would be through government investment and leading through the government. We don’t want to do that because it won’t be nearly as good, nearly as fast,” he said.

 

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The 5G Revolution: Millions of “Human Guinea Pigs” in Big Telecom’s Global Experiment May 12, 2019

Welcome to the brave new world of 5G.

The fifth generation of mobile communications networks has begun encroaching on our public space over the course of the last decade. On April 3, Verizon flipped the switch in the US cities of Chicago and Minneapolis, making the telecom company the first carrier in the world to make the 5G network accessible to properly equipped devices. As many as 30 other U.S. cities will get access to Verizon’s Ultra Wideband network in 2019. The service is being embraced through various other providers to other countries, including Canada, over the course of the next year. [2][3]

The big pitch is that the networks dramatically increase the speed of wireless communications. Not only will this innovation improve download speeds of high definition video, it will allow for virtually instantaneous connections between gadgets, thereby allowing for everything from virtual reality game-playing in real time, to driver-less cars with much better reaction times than humans (thereby reducing the likelihood of traffic fatalities) to surgeons in far-away communities able to conduct delicate surgeries using robotic mechanisms. [4]

Intriguing as these technological novelties may be, they do come with a significant downside. A multitude of peer-reviewed scientific studies have pointed to the negative health impacts associated with the microwave radiation used in existing wireless networks. These include childhood cancer and behavioural effects, brain tumours, neurological effects including memory and cognitive deficits, male infertility effects, neuropsychiatric effects including depression, Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, DNA damage, and malignant melanoma.

Remarkably, regulatory agencies like the US based Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Communications Commission consider the risks of this technology to be within tolerable levels. To quote the FDA:

“According to current data, the FDA believes that the weight of scientific evidence does not show an association between exposure to radiofrequency from cell phones and adverse health outcomes. Still, there is consensus that additional research is warranted to address gaps in knowledge, such as the effects of cell phone use over the long-term and on pediatric populations.”[5]

Scientists, environmental groups, doctors and concerned citizens have warned that the 5G roll-out constitutes
“an experiment on humanity and the environment” and that it should be considered a crime under international law.

Published on Dec 18, 2018 (5:46 min.)

Citizen groups in the United States are responding and have dubbed Wednesday May 15th a National Day of Action. Rallies are planned in 36 American cities (including Chicago.) Find details at www.5Gcrisis.com
This week’s Global Research News Hour critically examines the hype surrounding the fifth generation of mobile communication networks, and the potential for harm that it poses to the public.

In our first half hour, we get a breakdown of the health hazards of wireless radiation, and Canada’s regulatory stance from Canadian scientist Meg Sears, PhD. In our second half hour, we’ll hear from Patti Wood of the non-profit information hub Grassroots Environment Education about citizens’ efforts to protect the public from the 5G roll out. Toward the end of the show we’ll hear an excerpt from the CFUV program Gorilla Radio with activist and citizen journalist Walt McGinnis who has further insights into the new wireless technology, including an interesting connection with the University of Victoria.

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Russia’s publicly funded international media flagship RT has spent a lot of time drawing attention to the various health concerns surrounding 5G technology, though that interestingly enough hasn’t stopped the country itself from going forward with its plans to roll these systems out nationwide and specifically in what the Minister of Moscow’s Department of Information Technologies promises will be “crowded places like parks and central streets”.

2019-05-18 - The Curious Case Of Russia’s Contradictory Stance Towards 5G Technology
The Curious Case Of Russia's Contradictory Stance Towards 5G Technology - Eurasia Future

Giving Credit Where It’s Due
Winston Churchill famously said that “Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”, and this saying holds true sometimes when trying to interpret the country’s policy on certain issues of significance, the latest of which is 5G technology. The New York Times (NYT) ran a very critical piece attacking the editorial line taken by Russia’s publicly funded international media flagship RT towards this topic, which tends to focus almost exclusively on the various health concerns surrounding this technology. The NYT dismisses them all outright just because RT is paying attention to them, even headlining its article “Your 5G Phone Won’t Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise“, which is ironically enough the exact same reactionary knee-jerk stance that RT itself usually takes towards Western issues. That said, the NYT makes one valid observation that does indeed deserve further reflection, and it’s that RT is waging a campaign against 5G technology at the same time as the Russian government itself is going forward with its plans to roll these systems out nationwide and specifically in what the Minister of Moscow’s Department of Information Technologies promises will be “crowded places like parks and central streets”.

The Russian State’s Real Stance Towards 5G
This is an obvious contradiction that raises serious questions about what’s really going on behind the scenes. It’s either the case that RT is onto something big but the Russian government is too irresponsible to even care, or that RT is fearmongering for reasons related to “perception management” purposes and that it’s really the Russian government’s confidence in this technology that the global public should really pay attention to when forming their views on this issue. It might also be that both RT and the Russian government are correct in their own way for reasons that will be explained in a little bit, but first, it’s important to share the words that Minister Eduard Lysenko told Forbes last month in order for the reader to become aware of Moscow’s official position on this controversial matter. Here’s what the famous outlet reported that he said during their interview with him (emphasis added):

“Moscow has already played around with 5G and plans full-scale pilots through 2019. “During the 2018 World Cup,” Lysenko tells me, “MegaFon used Nokia 5G equipment to demonstrate VR Broadcast technology. Fifty people used VR glasses to watch a broadcast. Stadium cameras broadcast to a 5G cell tower, and the cell tower transmitted to smartphones connected to the VR glasses, using up to 35 Mbps per device.” Now, though, “MegaFon has said they have agreed to develop and implement 5G standards in Russia with Huawei.”

And that brings the discussion to the concerns raised by the United States and the United Kingdom, in particular, about the security risks associated with Huawei, including the allegations that the company might facilitate intelligence collection for Beijing. On this subject, Lysenko’s response is short and to the point. “The Russian Federation has strict information security regulations which we always follow.” I suspect Russia and Washington have different views of the threat to their respective national security from Huawei’s alleged intelligence links with Beijing.

Huawei won’t get it all, in any case. “There are other companies with other partnerships,” Lysenko says. “Russian telecommunication operators will choose 5G vendors for pilot zones based on their procurement policies and are now preparing technical standards for 5G technology implementation. After that, the process will accelerate. We cooperate with many equipment providers, including Huawei, Nokia, Ericsson, Qualcomm and IBM.”

And what about Russian equipment manufacturers?

“The decisions are being made by the [network operators] and not the government,” but “we hope that local Russian vendors will come to the pilot projects in order to demonstrate their progress.”

The intention is for the 2019 pilots to build on the success of the World Cup trial, with “full commercial use of 5G expected in 2020-2022.” The 2019 pilots will target key areas in Moscow. “These areas fall into two main categories,” Lysenko explains. “Crowded places, like parks and central streets, where consumer technology 5G tests and demonstrations will be held, and then innovation centers and technoparks, where technology companies will be able to test industrial 5G.””

All of this might understandably be shocking for the average member of the Alt-Media Community who had hitherto been indoctrinated into thinking that Russia was leading the global charge against 5G technology, though that notion has just been exposed as a completely false narrative manufactured by the masterful use of perception management techniques just like the equally false one about Russia supposedly being an “anti-Zionist crusader state” in spite of its alliance with the Zionist entity through “Putinyahu’s Rusrael“. The fact of the matter is that while RT is telling the English-language international audience to be wary of 5G technology, the Russian state itself is already experimenting with it and doesn’t seem the least bit concerned about the potential health effects that it could have on its people. It’s not only its own people that it isn’t worried about, but also the millions of tourists who traveled to Russia for the World Cup last summer and had no idea that this technology was secretly being used in stadiums.

RT = Reactive
So confident is Russia in the safety of 5G technology that it’s even testing it in “crowded places like parks and central streets” in Moscow (the largest city on the European continent with over 10 million people) all throughout this year in preparation for rolling it out nationwide in 2020-2022. That, however, doesn’t necessarily mean that RT is deceiving the masses by warning them about the possible dangers of untested 5G technology, but just that its editorial angle is probably a strategic one that adheres to the company’s motto to “Question More”. To explain, RT almost always takes the opposite approach to whatever the Mainstream Media’s is on any given issue, with the outlet being much more reactive in responding to its counterparts’ narratives in practically all cases than proactive in independently shaping its own and putting others on the defensive. That seems to be the case with their reporting on 5G, which appeals to their targeted audience precisely because it’s being suppressed by the Mainstream Media.

No Conspiracy Theory, Just Narrative Clumsiness
RT’s stance on this topic has in turn inadvertently cultivated the misleading impression that the Russian government itself is also wary of this technology because of the assumption that its audience naturally makes that the company’s content must somehow be approved by the Kremlin. The truth is that while RT is publicly financed, it’s editorially independent for the most part, and the case of its 5G reporting is proof of that. It’s mind-boggling to imagine the convoluted explanations that would go into supporting the conspiracy theory of RT openly contradicting its state patron in its coverage of the 5G issue as part of some nefarious plot to undermine the West when it can be argued that doing so also runs the very high risk of undermining Russia’s own policy towards this technology and therefore raising uncomfortable questions about its true intentions. The very fact that the NYT picked up on this proves that RT might have to revise its editorial stance in order to take into account the global community’s increased awareness about Moscow’s official position.

Miscommunication Causes Confusion
That would be for the better too since one of the most popular constructive criticisms that can be made about Russian policy in general is that it usually fails to properly explain its new approach towards certain issues that its intended audience previously assumed was permanently unchangeable. For example, Russia’s Afro-Eurasian “balancing” act is specifically predicated on pioneering new partnerships with its former rivals like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the global pivot state of Pakistan, but its international media outlets haven’t articulated the strategic reasons why this is happening to their audience, which has therefore led to a lot of confusion among the people who thought that Moscow wouldn’t ever befriend the adversaries of its traditional Syrian, Iranian, and Indian partners. The same can be said for Putin’s recent proclamation to build a hypersonic missile defense shield despite nearly two decades of very vocal opposition to the US’ conventional version of this system. It would therefore be useful if RT was tasked with explaining the nuances of these changed policies as well as the state’s official stance towards 5G technology.

Concluding Thoughts
All told, while the NYT veritably published a vitriolic hit piece intended to defame RT, it nevertheless touched upon an important point in drawing attention to how the network’s coverage of 5G technology contradicts its state patron’s official policy on this issue. This isn’t the result of a “cunning plan”, but rather narrative clumsiness which incidentally proves the company’s editorial independence since it would otherwise complement the country’s internal policies if it was truly a strategic instrument of the state. The very fact that it doesn’t will likely be celebrated by some but criticized by others who would be right to say that this is a serious soft power vulnerability that continues the existing trend evidenced in the the country’s international media coverage of its Afro-Eurasian “balancing” act and hypersonic missile defense shield plans. Both failed to account for Russia’s changing policies towards these two issues and resultantly lead to a lot of unnecessary and ultimately counterproductive confusion, which is why the best approach would be for the network to incorporate the state’s contemporary policy towards any issue into its information products, and it could start by doing so with the topic of 5G technology.

 

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Various reports circulating in the media referencing 5G and Huawei ...

May 25 2019 - Chinese Dump iPhones, Switch to Domestic Huawei Devices Amid US Crackdown

A growing number of former Apple devotees in China started switching from iPhones to domestic Huawei smartphones as trade and technology tensions escalate between Washington and Beijing. The South China Morning Post reported that consumers were spurred by a rising “nationalist sentiment” to support the Chinese tech giant which has been blacklisted by the US.

China is Apple’s largest overseas market, accounting for 17 percent of its total sales in the most recent quarter. Last year, Apple ranked as China’s fifth most popular smartphone brand with a 9.1 percent market share in the country. The company makes roughly 20 percent of its revenues and profits in China, which is the world’s largest market for smartphones. Apple’s market share in China has already fallen to seven percent in the first quarter of 2019, mainly due to Chinese consumers’ growing support for domestic brands.

On Wednesday, Goldman Sachs announced that Apple’s earnings could drop by almost 30 percent if its products were banned in mainland China.

China’s communications firm Huawei has been accused by Washington of spying for the Chinese government. US President Donald Trump has issued an order barring US firms from supplying Huawei with parts or technology. Complying with the order, software giant Microsoft removed Huawei laptops from its stores. Google has cut off Huawei's Android license while Microsoft has stayed silent on whether it will prevent the Chinese company from obtaining Windows licenses.

Huawei has been granted a 90-day extension to provide software updates to Android-powered handsets and maintain “continued operation of existing networks and equipment”.

May 23 2019 - Japan's Panasonic Suspends Transactions with China's Huawei

Japanese consumer electronics company Panasonic announced the suspension of all transactions with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei in the wake of a decision by Washington to add the company to a list of companies considered as a threat to US national security.

The broadcaster FNN reported on Thursday that the Japanese company had suspended all transactions involving Huawei and 68 companies affiliated with it. However, on its China website Panasonic stated is was supplying Huawei Technologies Co Ltd normally.

The news comes just a day after two Japanese mobile operators, KDDI and SoftBank, postponed the upcoming launch of Huawei smartphone sales in light of Google banning software updates for devices made by the Chinese telecom giant. Google cut off Huawei's access to updates of its Android operating system on Monday. Another Japanese operator, NTT Docomо, has also stopped accepting pre-orders for Huawei devices.

In mid-May, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order adding Huawei and its 70 affiliates to a trade blacklist, thereby restricting its activity in the country. From now on, US companies will be required to receive permission to do business with the telecom company. As a result, Google suspended its business operations with Huawei, including the transfer of hardware, software and technical services, except those publicly available via open source licensing.

May 23 2019 - Senators Offer Bipartisan Bill to Help US Firms Remove Huawei Equipment from Networks

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Wednesday to help US firms remove Chinese telecom equipment from companies like Huawei if it's deemed a national security threat. The legislation would require fifth generation, or 5G, wireless networks be free of equipment or services provided by Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE, The Hill reported.

It also would establish a “supply chain trust fund” program to help US firms remove Huawei equipment from their networks.
The measure would require the establishment of an “interagency program”, led by the Department of Homeland Security, to share information with communications companies on risks and vulnerabilities of networks.

The bill was introduced by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Senate Intelligence Committee ranking member Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), with Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) as co-sponsors.

Wicker, whose committee has examined 5G security in the recent months, said in a statement that “5G networks need to be robust and secure, and not rely on equipment or services that pose a national security risk”. Warner cited national security threats from Huawei and ZTE in highlighting the importance of the bill.

May 22 2019 - UK Largest Mobile Operator to Launch 5G without Huawei Amid US Pressure

The UK's largest mobile operator, EE, announced on Wednesday that it would launch the 5G network in the country this month without Huawei. EE chief executive Marc Allera told The Financial Times that the company has a multi-vendor strategy, so there is no need to change their plans, adding that the Chinese devices were put on hold as EE did not have "surety of service" that it needed for long-term cooperation.

At the same time, according to the BBC, UK-based computer chip designer Arm also suspended its business dealings with the Chinese tech giant, instructing employees to halt "all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements" with Huawei.
Washington claims that Huawei is installing backdoors in its equipment under Beijing's guidance so the latter can spy on users across the globe. The company itself denies the accusations and has even offered to sign a so-called no-spy agreement with the countries concerned.

As a result, Google ceased providing Android updates to Huawei and banning new Chinese devices from using Google services, such as YouTube and Maps. Previously, the US warned Britain that it may end intelligence cooperation between the two countries, prompting the United Kingdom to deny Huawei access to establishing its 5G telecommunication network due to espionage accusations against the Chinese company.

May 22 2019 - US Mulls Blacklisting Chinese Video Surveillance Maker Amid Trade War

The US administration is considering imposing limits on Chinese video surveillance system maker Hikvision in the latest attempt to counter China's economic expansion. According to the report, such move would effectively blacklist the company from conducting business in the US.

Hikvision is one of the world's largest makers of surveillance systems. While focusing mostly on traditional video surveillance, the company has also introduced more complicated systems, which involve artificial intelligence, speech monitoring, and genetic testing.
The company announced its products can allow people across the entire country to be tracked, as well as understand and react to "unusual" behaviour patterns such as sudden running or gathering of a crowd.

The US administration is seeking to secure a new trade deal with China while simultaneously forcing Chinese companies out of the US market, which has led to the expulsion of telecom giant Huawei from America's emerging 5G market. Formally, the US has cited fears that Chinese technology can be used to spy and steal information for the Chinese government, saying Chinese laws require private businesses to cooperate with the authorities.

May 22 2019 - US Business Group: Tariffs Are Hurting US Firms in China

A major business lobby group in the United States said increased tariffs between Washington and Beijing are hurting the competitiveness of US firms operating in China, adding that many are moving or planning to relocate their factories elsewhere in the world.

The American Chamber of Commerce in the People's Republic of China (AmCham China) stated in a report on Wednesday that US companies were facing increased government inspections, slower customs clearance and slower licence approvals, Al-Jazeera reported.

Nearly 75 percent of the 250 companies that responded to the group's survey announced that the recent tariff hikes by the US and China are having a negative effect on their businesses.The survey was conducted after China and the US raised tariffs on each other's imports earlier this month.

More than 40 percent were considering moving their manufacturing facilities out of China or had already done so, AmCham China said. Their preferred destinations were Southeast Asia and Mexico. Less than six percent of the respondents said they were considering moving to the US.

China imposed a retaliatory tariff increase and the Trump administration followed up last week by adding telecom equipment giant Huawei to a trade blacklist that restricts its ability to buy US components and software and do business with other US companies. Washington has temporarily eased some trade restrictions on the company in an attempt to minimize the effect on customers. No new trade talks have been scheduled, even though both Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to attend the G20 Summit in Japan's Osaka on June 28-29.


May 24, 2019 -Trump’s Attack on Huawei Could Shatter US Monopoly on Operating Systems
So in this battle between Free Market principles and American Greatness, US President Donald Trump has chosen the latter putting Chinese telecommunications/consumer electronics giant Huawei on a black list of “of foreign firms barred from receiving components from US exporters without a license”. This has caused Google to cut off Huawei from their Android mobile device operating system (OS), which is surely to be a killing blow to their climb towards being the #1 cellphone producer in the world.

Regarding desktop operating systems’ market shares Windows is #1 at almost 80%, Mac OS has about 15% and the biggest star of the little guys is Google’s Chrome OS at barely over 1% usage. For mobile devices Android has roughly 70% of the market, Apple’s iOS has nearly 29% and the abandoned Windows Phone has less than 1%. Excluding some very tiny operating systems for niche users, both these markets look the same – one giant system used by a strong majority of consumers followed by Apple’s firm elite second place with everything else in a distant irrelevant third. It is important to note that since Apple only allows its OS to be used on its own products, this effectively this means that Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop and Google has a monopoly on the mobile device market. Additionally, since every company mentioned above is American, this means that in the OS game the US has complete and total domination.

May 22, 2019 - Huawei: Breaking The Deadlock


Huawei has revealed that if necessary, it will be ready to roll out its own operating system (OS) which can be used an an alternative to Google’s Android OS that is currently on almost all of the world’s Huawei devices. The move comes after the White House ordered a blanket ban (better referred to as an embargo) against Huawei entering the US market or doing business with US based companies. This resulted in Google cutting its software cooperation ties with the Chinese tech giant whilst American chip makers Qualcomm and Intel also severed links.

There is little doubt that Huawei’s in-house microchips and processors are of an extremely high quality. The bigger question is one of overcoming the use of the Android operating system and Google designed apps without direct support from the software developer.

Although Android is an open source operating system, questions remain as to how effectively Huawei could continue to use a system whose support channels will be cut off by Google in three months time.

Now however, Huawei has expressed its confidence in the ability to natively run Android apps on its in-house operating system that may be released to the public as early as the last quarter of 2019. According to some reports, the Huawei OS will even be able to optimise Android apps which would theoretically allow some of them to run in a smoother fashion than on certain Android devices.

May 20, 2019 - Google-Huawei conflict won't affect Russian users, vows official

© AP Photo/Ng Han Guan The Chinese company has stated that it will continue servicing smartphones across the globe

The suspension of business contacts between Huawei and Google will not affect the operation of gadgets of Russian users, Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Alexei Volin told reporters on Monday.

Earlier the US corporation Google decided to suspend business contacts with Huawei, which virtually deprives the latter of access to technologies and software, particularly to updates of the Android mobile software installed on smartphones it produces. The Chinese company has stated that it will continue servicing smartphones across the globe.

"The conflicts between US and Chinese producers will have no impact on Russian users as everything works out well," Volin said.

 

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The Trump administration has moved to punish Huawei on national security grounds amid a bitter trade dispute with China. But in Europe, the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker has received a different reception.

As US bars Huawei, Europe can't resist 5G deals

The Netherlands' leading wireless carrier last month chose Huawei to provide equipment for its next-generation 5G wireless network. PHOTO: REUTERS

May 29, 2019 - Last month, the Netherlands' leading wireless carrier chose Huawei to provide equipment for its next-generation 5G wireless network. The carrier, KPN, insisted the choice was based on quality. But Huawei had another advantage: price.

Huawei underbid the existing vendor, Swedish firm Ericsson, by 60 per cent, according to two industry officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter - offering a price that wouldn't even cover the cost of parts.

The company can afford to provide such steep discounts in part because it has a silent partner: the Chinese government. Huawei gets hundreds of millions of dollars in annual subsidies and, together with another Chinese firm, is guaranteed a majority share of the domestic market, the world's largest.

At the same time, Huawei's customers in the developing world can take advantage of loans at below-market interest rates, drawing on a staggering US$100 billion (S$138 billion) line of credit at state-owned banks - a level of government financial support that is unheard of for a Western company.

"Huawei's the poster child for China's state capitalism," said Mr James Lewis, a tech policy expert at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

Over the past decade, Huawei has made similar inroads in Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and throughout the developing world, offering good products at prices telecom carriers can't resist and with which rivals can't compete. (Article continues.)


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In a wide-ranging interview, US President Donald Trump also repeated previous criticism of British PM Theresa May's strategy for taking Britain out of the European Union. PHOTO: AFP

Jun 2, 2019 - United States President Donald Trump urged Britain to be "very careful" about involving Chinese tech giant Huawei in its new 5G network, in an interview published on Saturday (June 1) ahead of his state visit to London.

Asked about reports that Britain is planning to give the firm a limited role, Mr Trump told the Sunday Times newspaper: "Well, you have other alternatives and we have to be very careful from the standpoint of national security."

He added: "You know we have a very important intelligence gathering group, that we work very closely with your country (Britain) and so you have to be very careful."

The US has long voiced suspicions that Huawei is controlled by the Chinese government and, thus, a global security threat - charges strongly denied by the firm and by Beijing.

Huawei is too close to Chinese government: U.S. defense chief

Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Saturday that technology firm Huawei was too close to the Chinese government, adding that Washington was concerned about cyber attacks and the theft of intellectual property.

Pompeo tells Germany: Use Huawei and lose access to our data

The United States raised the pressure on Western allies in a war of attrition over next-generation networks on Friday, saying countries that allow China's Huawei to build their telecoms infrastructure could be cut off from crucial intelligence data.

 

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Wireless carriers around the world are sprinting to adopt 5G networks to power self-driving cars, virtual reality and smart cities. We’re talking about billions of devices on the same network, not just millions. First-adopter countries embracing 5G could sustain more than a decade of competitive advantage. Countries that adopt 5G first are expected to experience disproportionate gains in macroeconomic impact compared to those that lag. China’s Five-Year Plan calls for investing a further $400 billion in 5G and consequently, China may be creating a 5G tsunami, making it near impossible to catch up. Deloitte.

Huawei, 5G and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Graphs)
Huawei, 5G and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

5G is a national productivity tool whose benefits, like those we derive from our railways, are less noticeable to end users yet critical to industry and commerce. 5G is 20 times faster than 4G, serves as the fast backbone of the “Internet of Things”(IoT), handles a million connected devices/km2 simultaneously with millisecond latency and uses power and radio frequencies more effectively with downloads of 20 gb/second, enabling smart factories and smart cities.

Gear based on the 5G stand-alone specifications, the standard China is pushing, is designed to run independently of 4G networks so operators will need to rebuild their core networks and buy new 5G base stations to provide higher data speeds and greater capacity, as well as ultra-reliable, low-latency services to support machine-to-machine connection and autonomous driving. Today, many new technologies like IoT and AI are ready for broad application and 5G technology itself is remarkably well developed. Once implemented, a 5G system provides an almost unimaginable increase in the capabilities of all internet-connected devices. Instead of new devices being stand alone, they will create an internet-connected web of things to integrate their activities into an almost-living machine-machine and machine-human environment.