Huawei reportedly in talks to license its 5G networking technology to U.S. carriers
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Earlier this month, we told you that the Trump administration had painted itself into a corner by banning Huawei, the world's largest networking equipment company, from providing gear to U.S. carriers. The problem is that U.S. tech companies don't offer the necessary technology to help American wireless operators build out their 5G networks. And Huawei's competitors, like Nokia and Ericsson, are more expensive. U.S. officials tried to get domestic tech firms like Cisco and Oracle to produce this equipment, but both declined stating that it would take too much time and money for them to enter this business.
Huawei's Pang wouldn't guess whether a pact would be signed between his company and any of the anonymous U.S. carriers. But he did warn those American firms interested in a one-time licensing deal that the cost of continually improving the technology is expensive. For example, it cost Huawei billions of dollars since 2009 to develop its 5G networking equipment.
The U.S. has warned its allies not to use Huawei equipment in their 5G networks
A State Department official was not optimistic that a licensing deal would be agreed to by U.S. carriers. "It’s just not realistic that carriers would take on this equipment and then manage all of the software and hardware themselves," he said. He pointed out that even if the software code is turned over to the carriers by Huawei, bugs in the software might escape detection by the wireless providers and they could be activated at any time. We think that this official is being coy; by "bugs," he could mean technology designed to send intelligence to Beijing.

Huawei is reportedly in talks to license its 5G tech to U.S. firms
5G is the next generation in wireless connectivity and is 10 times faster than 4G LTE. Not only will these faster data speeds allow users to download movies in seconds, but it also will lead to the creation of new businesses and industries in the same way that 4G LTE helped create the rideshare industry. The latter now has two multi-billion companies (Lyft and Uber). The countries that complete the construction of their 5G networks first will have first dibs at participating in the upcoming 5G economic boom.
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