You blithering Ajit! Huawei burns Pai for FCC sh*tlist proposal Chinese telco giant Huawei is hitting back at America's comms watchdog, the FCC, over its proposal to ban the telco from key US markets. The hardware vendor has filed a response to the regulator's proposal that Huawei, ZTE, and other China-based vendors are banned from doing business with any US telco that wants to get funds …
I agree with Pai on this one.
I've been doing research on Android for some time now and I can honestly say that these inexpensive Chinese mobiles are a security/privacy nightmare.
The only way to get them to behave is to flash a different OS such as Lineage and create a massive HOSTS file, disable 80% of the Trust certificates and run extensive testing with LogCat, Netstat, TCPDump,various Linux terminal commands and take bug reports to quell any memory leaks. And never install anything from the Play Store!
I think Huawei is talking about carrier class kit, not phones.
In which case, yes, the allegations don’t appear substantiated.
All android phones snitch - that is their purpose. Carrier kit, not so much. Even so, if you aren’t securing your data from your carrier, you aren’t doing it right.
It’s just protectionism. It breeds inefficiency and increased costs for the protected side. You’re welcome to your Cisco sfp and ram prices.
So, they're no different than any other smartphones, then. I don't see why Chinese companies should be singled out when everyone else's hands are just as dirty.
Well.. the difference is that with a Chinese company phone, your data all goes to China instead of American companies. Then when the data is sold to advertisers, China gets the money instead of American companies.
I do note that it's a thin murky line as to which is worse and since American companies just rebrand the Chinese stuff, data still flows.
"the difference is that with a Chinese company phone, your data all goes to China instead of American companies."
I see that as a distinction without a real difference. As to who gets the money -- it doesn't matter one bit. None of these companies should be making money through spying on us. A sleazy business practice is sleazy no matter what nationality the business is.
Singling out Chinese companies as bad for doing this is unsupportable if you aren't including the companies in all other nations, including the US, in the "bad" group when they're doing it.
"IIRC China is the major holder of the USA national debt - not to mention significant assets."
Man that is just wrong on so many levels. China is the largest foreign holder of US debt followed by Japan then the Belgium. The Largest hold of US debt is Americans. Only 34% of the US debt is own by foreign entities.
Of course it can. Facts are facts, whether or not anyone has verified them. Verification helps us determine which statements are facts and which are not, but whether or not a statement is true (therefore a fact) is unrelated to whether or not anyone has confirmed that it's true.
The largest manufactures of Tellecoms equipment are:
Huawei, Erricson, Nokia(Alcatel-Lucent,) ZTE, Cisco, samsung
By excluding Huawei and ZTE they are unfaily discriminating, Nokia has large holdings in china and joint ventures with state owned companies, the same with Erricson.
Samsung manufactures a lot of its kit in china, as does cisco, and neither produce as good carrier grade as Huawei
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