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| Merkel opens 5G network for Huawei, waives a ban on Chinese mobile phone technology (translation of German) |
| 2019-10-15 |
| [Spiegel] At the insistence of the Chancellery, Berlin waives a ban on Chinese mobile phone technology. Coalition politicians criticize the decision. Berlin, Düsseldorf. Representatives of the federal government had been debating for months, now the decision has been made: The Chinese network supplier Huawei is allowed to supply components for the entire German 5G network. According to the Handelsblatt, this is the result of the current draft on the security requirements for the telecommunications networks of the Federal Network Agency. The resolution is to be published in the next few days. An initially discussed clause that would block Huawei's access to the market is not included in the paper. |
| Posted by:Elmerert Hupens2660 |
| #12 Dummkopf. Also raised in an unorthodox communist family and fed an anti-Western, totalitarian and theocratic ideology. Last week Commissioner Julian King warned that buying 5G "is not like buying a car, but joining a club". It's more like letting a notorious ghost hacker implant a cyberbrain into the national IT infrastructure, |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2019-10-15 18:13 |
| #11 Ericsson (based in Sweden, so nominally European) makes 5G gear. In collaboration with Huawei. In India. And, yeah, it's about the economics of it. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-10-15 17:57 |
| #10 The making 5g thing is purely down to cost not tech. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-10-15 15:53 |
| #9 I just don't know what to think here. A bunch of thoughts: * Some "allies". * Germany despises buying American so much they're willing to buy Huawei just to give us a big "fuck you". * The US intelligence community wants their backdoored equipment installed in Europe so as to keep an eye on things. Seeing them lose can only be a good thing. * Europe is so anti-innovation that they can't make their own 5G equipment. * It's time to disband NATO. Europeans obviously don't think that foreign threats are serious, so why are we even there? Why are we financially ruining ourselves to protect against phantom threats? |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-10-15 14:54 |
| #8 I can understand the consternation here but the Germans might be forgiven for asking us if it is unwise to use Chinese computers. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-10-15 11:27 |
| #7 A thought... US has banned them, presumably that applies to NATO usage too, End of NATO? |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2019-10-15 09:07 |
| #6 Isn't it time to bomb the Chancellery again? |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2019-10-15 09:05 |
| #5 She's terrified of dogs. It's said that each time she meets Vlad he makes sure there's a pooch in the house-- usually a big aggressive one. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-10-15 02:21 |
| #4 And it was love at first sight? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-10-15 02:17 |
| #3 He sicced his Doberman on her |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-10-15 02:10 |
| #2 She got Vlad's memo ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-10-15 01:56 |
| #1 Dummkopf. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-10-15 01:20 |