Huawei could be banned from 5G networks across the EU

Sanctions-hit Huawei is facing another potential blow amid reports the EU is mulling a mandatory ban on member states using kit from companies deemed to be a possible security threat in their telecoms networks. There have been growing concerns among western nations in recent years over the perceived security threat posed by …

[VoiceOfTruth]

Very well

-> using kit from companies deemed to be a possible security threat

Cancel all Cisco orders immediately.

[Spazturtle]

Re: Very well

What 5G equipment does Cisco make exactly?

[big_D]

Re: Very well

They make back-bone networking kit, amongst other stuff.

Lots of security issues and around the 2018-2020 timeframe, it was almost a monthly game of spot the backdoor, with Cisco publish patch after patch to remove back doors from various kit.

Then we have HP, where the US TLAs allegedly intercepted a shipment of switches going to an ally and put their own backdoored firmware in them, then resealed the packaging.

[Phil O'Sophical]

Thierry Breton ... claimed that 5G population coverage is 95 percent in the US but 72 percent in the EU

I find both those figures very hard to believe. The last numbers I saw for the US were closer to 65% of population.

[Anonymous Coward]

Where Washington leads, many partners follow.

Should read

Where Washington leads, many supposed "allies only when it suits them", are told,"do as we say or... sanctions".

Protectionist blackmail.

[Yes Me]

Re: Where Washington leads, many partners follow.

Yes. The entire attack on Huawei is and always has been pure protectionism, in which for some reason organisations like the NSA and GCHQ have allowed themselves to be enrolled. All countries doing this should be the subject of complaints at the WTO - this is a direct assault on free trade by the countries that claim to be the strongest defenders of free trade. The hypocrisy is unbelievable.

[Avon B7]

Details?

"Huawei has been slapped hard by US-led sanctions against the company, which hit it in the pocket, with profits dropping by 46 percent in the first quarter of 2023 when compared with the end of last year."

I believe that is the case numerically but weren't revenues actually slightly up for the period?

There was a gigantic upsurge in revenues (approx $15B) with the sale of Honor which obviously creates a temporary distortion across the board.

Are the figures you are referring to partly a result of the subsequent adjustment of that one off transaction?

[Professor_Iron]

EU Comissioner Thierry Breton is the former CEO of the once-famed French IT consulting company Atos, which he left in 2019. Needless to say, that their strategy on 5G (or anything else technology in general) did not really play out well. My guess is that he just wants his revenge for personal business failures on the topic.

[Fred Flintstone]

Allow me to almost repeat myself..

Just to be sure, the kit that is going to replace the Huawei gear they remove is surely as thoroughly screened and the results made public as what it replaces, right?

Right?

Yeah, thought so.

Sound like a new road to ye olde Total Information Awareness/Access, and not even in a subtle way.

And government suckers in the EU fell for it. Again.

[Slx]

This is going to be expensive.

You can be sure that a lot of networks will want to be compensated. They bought equipment in good faith, often spending SERIOUS amounts of money on it. Someone's going to have to foot that bill.