Open letter from China

Roman4604 said:
http://www.huawei.com/huawei_open_letter.do

In defence of the wrongly accused, or good PR to cover up skeletons in the closet? You decided.
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Most likely a bit of both.

It's clear the Chinese use an unified front to attack new markets and industries and one has to ask; why not? At least they stand together as a country.

On the other hand, it's as clear the US is at its most paranoid since the commie-witch-hunt period and the Tea Baggers and their supporters see a terrorist behind every bush or mobile base station.
 
TwoCents1000 said:
On the other hand, it's as clear the US is at its most paranoid since the commie-witch-hunt period and the Tea Baggers and their supporters see a terrorist behind every bush or mobile base station.
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Yeah, the nightmare scenario thats got Jack Bauer & co. all worked up is, if some substantial part of America's future wireless superhighway (e.g. LTE) is built on equipment designed with an inherent backdoor which the Chinese gov/mil could expoilt in the event of some future disagreement/conflict.
 
TwoCents1000 said:
Most likely a bit of both.

It's clear the Chinese use an unified front to attack new markets and industries and one has to ask; why not? At least they stand together as a country.

On the other hand, it's as clear the US is at its most paranoid since the commie-witch-hunt period and the Tea Baggers and their supporters see a terrorist behind every bush or mobile base station.
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Roman4604 said:
Yeah, the nightmare scenario thats got Jack Bauer & co. all worked up is, if some substantial part of America's future wireless superhighway (e.g. LTE) is built on equipment designed with an inherent backdoor which the Chinese gov/mil could expoilt in the event of some future disagreement/conflict.
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In that case we all need to fear the Scandinavian countries as they build a significant amount of equipment there!!! (Nokia, Ericsson, etc). Then we have the Germans and French (Siemens and Alcatel)...


/runs to fetch tinfoil hat!
 
MickeyD said:
In that case we all need to fear the Scandinavian countries as they build a significant amount of equipment there!!! (Nokia, Ericsson, etc). Then we have the Germans and French (Siemens and Alcatel)...
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I think the difference is its only built in China, not designed there.
 
Roman4604 said:
Yeah, the nightmare scenario thats got Jack Bauer & co. all worked up is, if some substantial part of America's future wireless superhighway (e.g. LTE) is built on equipment designed with an inherent backdoor which the Chinese gov/mil could expoilt in the event of some future disagreement/conflict.
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Well, if the Yanks would get off their fat behinds and actually start designing and building stuff again, they could supply their own telecoms equipment.
 
TwoCents1000 said:
Well, if the Yanks would get off their fat behinds and actually start designing and building stuff again, they could supply their own telecoms equipment.
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Consumers and corporate customers demand cheaper products. It's cheaper to manufacture in India/China/Korea than it is to manufacture in the US (wages, taxes, etc). So if you manufacture in the Far East you have a competitive advantage over your competition. It's the companies that moved outside the US, not the citizens. The citizens merely elected a government that made it possible and profitable.

How many people in South Africa will buy the Chinese import ADSL modem, or the "Made in South Africa" one for twice/three times the price? I once compared Cisco and Huawei for a project (a few years back) and the Huawei equipment that does the same thing was half the price. For a multi-million rand project that's a lot of money. Makes shareholders happy if you can save money.
 
Valerion said:
"Made in South Africa"
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Back when I was a student there was a company in CT that designed & built their own x86 motherboards. Obviously did not last but it was kinda impressive.
If I recall correctly they were based just outside the city on Voortrekker road past that domed building.
 
ponder said:
Back when I was a student there was a company in CT that designed & built their own x86 motherboards. Obviously did not last but it was kinda impressive.
If I recall correctly they were based just outside the city on Voortrekker road past that domed building.
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You must have been around when they used our locally designed and manufactured PCM transmission systems?
 
ponder said:
was a company in CT that designed & built their own x86 motherboards.
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Yep, back in the days I used to work for one such company in JHB, Technetics. We designed & built our own motherboards, WAN inf cards, mainframe terminal controllers etc. Eventually got bought out by what is now BCX.
 
Valerion said:
Consumers and corporate customers demand cheaper products. It's cheaper to manufacture in India/China/Korea than it is to manufacture in the US (wages, taxes, etc). So if you manufacture in the Far East you have a competitive advantage over your competition. It's the companies that moved outside the US, not the citizens. The citizens merely elected a government that made it possible and profitable.
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That's the whole point, if US manufacturing has declined because of wage, tax and regulatory issues, then it should deal with those in order to stimulate real economic growth again, e.g. lower minimum wage, lower red tape, reduce taxes, cut excessive government expenditure. It's not the companies' fault that the citizens elect governments that go out of their way to enact economy-crushing regulations, the companies are just trying to survive like everyone else.
 
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