Evidence? Apart from a change.org petition I mean.
That is exactly what I was referring to.
A bunch of assorted loonies who are prepared to make such preposterious claims to try to scare the gullible to support their lunatic ācauseā.
Just like the anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists idiots.
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Perhaps this is on the money.
While there are wider geopolitical issues at play, it is clear that @Fred123 and @SueW (and no doubt others) are never going to agree.
A discussion strictly focused on the banning of Huawei products at least had some consumer relevance (those products wonāt be available to consumers, with both benefits and costs to the consumer as a result).
At least, if forum participants want to debate the above change.org petition, please fork the topic. Iāll happily jump in - but the new topic may get closed either due to, um, āpassionā or due to lack of relevance.
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Did I say anything about Huawei? I didnt think I didā¦ I was wanting to know where that arms race crap came from. As it happens, I quite like Huawei prroducts, I still have one of their early android phones. As to whether its a good or bad idea to ābanā them in terms of communications networksā¦ maybeā¦ but they make good productā¦
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I donāt think it has ever been about quality1 or price. Depending on whom you believe, it is about
- US protectionism
- Iran embargo
- tech companies being subject to mandatory backdoor legislation in their home country, or even in other countries
1 If I recall correctly, earlier on in this topic, there are some claimed quality issues in a particular model of Huawei equipment as intended to be deployed inside the UK mobile network. However your comment would have been about consumer-level equipment.
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It would be remiss not to add the following report that fills in some of the details. Forbes is generally a reliable source but tech is less their business than business and politics. For what it is worth.
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Interesting stuff!
