There are really only 3 players in the 5G space, Huawei, Nokia and Ericsson. None are US, but the US back Nokia and Ericsson. I suspect the US will see that they can partake in the Nokia and Ericsson builds. Funny thing is, Nokia and Ericsson will have to pay royalties to Huawei as they hold most of the patents. The value of patents are going through the court system now.
Google "Snowden Cisco". NSA/CIA have been installing backdoors in Cisco gears for years. Got so bad Cisco had to put fake addresses on shipments that were destined for overseas customers.
UK are on the verge of approving a $400m Huawei factory in Cambridge. US have kicked up a stink so its going through another final round of review lol. If you can get British nationals in there researching, developing and building the gears...why not? Jobs for the British, and they can make sure the builds are secure. Doesn't make sense to knock it back, other than economic and technology warfare. Huawei Australia have said the AU policy has cost up to an estimated 1500 Australian jobs. Shame.
Anyone that knows IT, will know you can segment your network, then monitor and restrict where the traffic goes. We could have managed the risk, which is what the UK is arguing, rather than banning the company altogether. So I don't buy the "security concern" story. Think it has more to do with $$$.
Awarding Australia's Covid Safe app data storage to Amazon, over 2 qualified Australian based companies, is all starting to make sense now isn't it?
