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2010-11-06 China-Japan-Koreas

Security Fears Kill Chinese Bid for US Infrastructure

Sprint Nextel Corp. is excluding Chinese telecommunications-equipment makers Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. from a contract worth billions of dollars largely because of national security concerns in Washington, according to people familiar with the matter. Huawei and ZTE lost out even though they submitted bids that were lower than those of their three competitors, Alcatel-Lucent SA, Telefon L.M. Ericsson of Sweden and South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co., said a person familiar with the matter.
Last month four US lawmakers wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission expressing their concerns that Chinese telecom-gear makers are potentially subject to "significant influence by the Chinese military which may create an opportunity for manipulation of switches, routers, or software embedded in American telecommunications network so that communications can be disrupted, intercepted, tampered with, or purposely misrouted."
BUT, outsourcing US rare earth mining to the lowest bidder (China) has worked out so well!

Isn't that mine in California reopening?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-11-06 01:43|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 How about "we should be spending US money on US jobs?"

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-11-06 20:10|| 2010-11-06 20:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Jobs also matter Snow Thing, but in this case security matters even more. There's a reason that recent IEEE publications suddenly had a series of articles about trusted vs vulnerable hardware as well as software in telecomms.

Not everything with a CISCO label on the cabinet was made by them or remains in its original configuration.

Posted by lotp 2010-11-06 21:14|| 2010-11-06 21:14|| Front Page Top

#3 That too.

In that case, IMHO, they have turned our leadership's collective unconcern for our economic well being against us, and used it to limit our well being in other areas as well.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-11-06 22:49|| 2010-11-06 22:49|| Front Page Top

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