Huawei equipment has a price advantage: sourcing from non-Chinese sources is likely to drive up costs. Security comes at a price. In a significant development, China’s Huawei is facing fresh headwinds in Europe following an announcement by Deutsche Telekom that it would review its vendor strategy; Orange has also stated it would not use its…
According to the U.S. National Security Agency, Chinese cyber activity in the United States has risen in recent months with the bulk of these attacks aimed at disrupting critical infrastructure. The Wall Street Journal has reported, Chinese hackers have been able to breach and steal a slew of documents,including missile plans, from U.S. Navy contractors…
U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm had disclosed, a Chinese court had ordered a ban on the sales of selected older iPhone models for violating two of its patents. With Apple Inc facing a court ban in China over some of its iPhone models over alleged intellectual property infringements of Qualcomm Inc patents, Cupertino said on Friday, it…
With this move, Apple will create 20,000 jobs in the U.S. and will plough in more than $10 billion, apart from the $1 billion for its new campus, over the next 5 years. Apple Inc stated, it would sink in $1 billion for its second campus in North Austin, Texas; it would also invest a…
SoftBank will also source its 5G network equipment from Nokia and Ericsson rather than from Huawei: Nikkei In a significant development, Japan’s Nikkei has reported without citing sources, SoftBank Group Corp plans on replacing 4G network equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd with equivalent hardware from Nokia and Ericsson. Further, for its 5G network,…
In recent years, faced with rising costs and a slump in sales, Samsung has shifted the bulk of its mobile production plants in facilities in India and Vietnam. A spokeswoman from Samsung Electronics has stated, the company will suspend operations at one of its mobile phone manufacturing plants in China. The development comes midst rising…
Yesterday, senior officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “China’s Non-Traditional Espionage Against the United States: The Threat and Potential Policy Responses.” As per a senior U.S. intelligence official, in recent months, cyber activities by China in the United States has increased significantly. These…
The development will have short term consequences for SoftBank given its relation with Huawei; it will find it hard to replace the pre-existing Huawei network equipment that has been customized to its requirements and thus is not easily interchangeable. On Monday, Japan’s Kyodo News News reported, the three biggest telecom operators of Japan, do not…
China has emerged as the prime suspect in the Marriott hacking attack case. Here’s the low-down on it. In a significant development of wide-reaching ramifications, sources familiar with the matter at hand have disclosed that clues left behind by hackers in the Marriott International Inc hack points to a Chinese government intelligence gathering operation. Last…
The move follows similar measures undertaken by the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand. On Wednesday, Britain’s BT Group Plc stated it will remove Huawei Technologies Co’s equipment from its core 4G network within two years. The development brings BT’s mobile phone business in line with an internal policy to keep the equipment of Huawei Technologies…
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