US Blocks Huawei From Building LTE Network

An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. government has cited national security as a reason not to let Chinese company Huawei build an LTE public safety network. They're worried about Huawei's close ties to the Chinese government and the threat of any devices Huawei manufactures being bugged. Of course, whoever gets the contract is going to be manufacturing their devices in China anyway, but it looks like a Chinese company won't be allowed to deploy the infrastructure."

Even if it is bugged...

[CMcQueeny]

Even if we assume they're both tainted with devious Chinese spyware (and I'm not sure that China would want to harm such a huge and valuable debtor, by the way) which of these sounds like a bigger threat:

1. A large Chinese-built wireless network which the government can monitor or shut down with relative ease.

2. A vast semi-regulated sea of Chinese-built devices of all kinds flowing into the US, too many to be effectively controlled or destroyed, many of them used by emergency and government workers.

Come on, people. Maybe China is a threat to us and maybe it isn't, but if there's a problem, at least attack it in a logical way.

Re:Huawei was in the news in Europe as well...

[WindBourne]

Not surprised. Just like the 'Chinese success', it is all predicated on constant lies and deceptions. But considering that Huawei is Chinese gov (in fact, more Chinese gov, than America Air was US Gov [wikipedia.org]). In fact, unless a company has outside participation, it is 100% owned AND MANAGED by the gov.

Re:it's ok for the U.S. govt...

[WindBourne]

How did you get modded up? If we do wiretapping of telecom networks ESP. SECURED networks, in another nation, that would be called .... SPYING. And NO nation sees that as being legal.

Re:Emergency Response

[Kagetsuki]

I've dealt with Huwei wireless gear on and off and have constantly found it to be absolutely awful. That is unless you expect things like 3G data adapters to tweak out after 5 minutes because they overheat or IP Phone boxes that drop connections like it's a sport. Seriously, I'd trust tin cans and string with my life before a Huwei product.

Re:US Blocks Huawei From Building LTE Network

[Anonymous Coward]

Huawei is a for-profit company, but it's also a government subsidiary. It's like a more freely operated USPS.

Imagine if there was an article: "US government wants to build public cell phone network in China"

I think the Chinese would be concerned private communist party communications would be intercepted and read by the US government -- and chances are they would be right.