UK Huawei banned from the UK’s 5G network

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The Telegraphs morning headline for July 5, 2020.

The UK joins a list of countries banning Huawei from their telecommunications infrastructure amid China claiming the west is just trying to ban superior technology. It seems to have went over their head that China even copies the west’s excuses when it wants to economically retaliate against someone for trade violations.

Even after they claim America doesn’t want competitors, it doesn’t seem like too many countries are jumping to put their money where their mouth is and keep Huawei‘s intrusive devices on the market.

The blow comes right after India, a country with tiktoks largest user base, banned the Chinese social media giant from its App Store.

Reuters said:
UK PM Johnson to phase out Huawei's 5G role within months
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(Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to begin phasing out the use of Chinese tech giant Huawei’s technology in Britain’s 5G network as soon as this year, The Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday.

Officials are drawing up proposals to stop installing new Huawei Technologies equipment in the 5G network in as little as six months, and to speed up the removal of technology that is already in place, the newspaper bit.ly/3f12gST reported.

The move comes after the nation’s spy agency GCHQ raised new security fears over Chinese technology.

A report prepared by GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre concludes that new U.S. sanctions on Huawei will force the company to use untrusted technology that could make the risk impossible to control, the newspaper said.

The sanctions have had a “severe” impact on the firm that significantly changes GCHQ’s calculations, the report said.
The report is expected to be presented to Johnson this week.
Johnson’s spokesman said earlier this week that officials will soon complete a review of the implications of the latest U.S. sanctions, which are aimed at cutting off Huawei’s access to U.S. chipmakers.

Reporting by Aishwarya Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Daniel Wallis
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Good job Boris, only took you until the very last second after you put your country in the jaws of China until your intelligence agencies were having a meltdown over your pure naivety.
They shouldn't have been "phased in" to begin with.
 
"China claiming the west is just trying to ban superior technology."?
Really? Let's be fucking frank here, the only thing the Chinese are superior in is take-out food, super-flus, and "how many slaves we can have before people start to sincerely give a shit."

The fact is 5G does have some rather interesting properties that could easily be exploited by foreign powers, and the fact we were considering out-sourcing it to a company that aligns itself with an ideological enemy is mental.

Also, sincere question - does anybody go out of their way to specifically find tech that says "Made in China"? That'd be like specifically looking for Italian electronics. It's just a not a smart idea at all.

Boris has been selling the U.K down river for a while, and him making a good call is good to hear, albeit late as fuck. Just like the anti-COVID measures.
 
Huawei’s 5G tech isn’t even worth it. Japan’s making their own 5G Network and that’d probably do better.
 
It is too little too late. If they did not want China to have the ability to ass fuck their IT infrastructure they should have banned the use of Chinese tech 20 years ago. China can just bug the smartphones their build by the hundreds of millions and cause all the damage they want.
 
Distant Stare said:
It is too little too late. If they did not want China to have the ability to ass fuck their IT infrastructure they should have banned the use of Chinese tech 20 years ago. China can just bug the smartphones their build by the hundreds of millions and cause all the damage they want.
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Problem is you'd have to expand that ban to encompass Chinese made parts on top of whole products, which won't happen anytime soon, despite a lot of companies trying to move production into India.
 
Commandant Swordfish said:
"China claiming the west is just trying to ban superior technology."?
Really? Let's be fucking frank here, the only thing the Chinese are superior in is take-out food, super-flus, and "how many slaves we can have before people start to sincerely give a shit."
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China makes some decent high-end stuff. Those include lots of Western and Taiwanese components though. Which is probably why the US sanctions force Huawei to use "untrusted components".
 
Britain dislikes any company that is better at censorship than they are.
 
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