Electronics Weekly
The lawsuits allege that Huawei violated US sanctions on trade with Iran and with stealing trade secrets from one of its customers – T-Mobile.
The lawsuits were brought just a couple of days before trade talks between the USA and China resume.
The USA is seeking extradition from Canada of Huawei’s CFO who is being held by the Canadian authorities at the request of the USA.
Yes indeed Fred and I understand the Tappy dispute was settled in Huawei’s favour in a civil lawsuit about five years ago. So this lawsuit is all very bogus – the US DoJ seems to have scraped the barrel to create this indictment. But I don’t see this lawsuit as even bothering to pretend to have much legal merit it’s just a trumped-up (apologies for the pun) charge to get China to give concessions in this week’s trade talks.
Absolutely Frank, but although the US has no legal capability to decide to whom non-US companies should ship or not ship, nevertheless any non-US company wishing to do business in the US might feel it’s in their own best interest to respect the wishes of the US government,
The stealing technology charge from T-Mobile tech, known as Tappy, mimicked human fingers to test phones, sounds a bit weak to me given that H. were manufacturing phones for TM at the time. Hmm, rubber fingers with solenoids is not exactly a break through in 5G comms, is it? Is that the best they can do ? Goodness..
A friend of mine made something like that for testing mechanical switches. It is the type of problem that initially sounds trivial, but when you try to implement it, all sorts of issues come up. By the time people realise human tapping has a range of pressures applied to the device under test, a large number of products has already been shipped out to customers. Later, when you suddenly realise tapping is not purely vertical, you are at least prepared for the next batch of returned products where sideways movements have damaged a seal you never thought of. At this time reputation is damaged, accountants are worried about financial losses, the insurance company is no longer happy, the boss is screaming and customers demand blood.
I believe the real issue for Huawei is if someone finds that they have secret backdoors into software code that can shut down the network…so far all we have heard is concerns and rumours!
I think that their commercial practise of going to Telecom Italia for example and selling a network at a bargain price is unacceptable and shows the gullible nature of some operators that buy the initial install at a great price only to be hit hard when they buy the next tranche to add to their installed base network. Having said that it is also true that companies such as Ericsson have been ready to free issue software that kills off enterprise independent software suppliers.
Personally I think it wrong that US impose sanctions on companies that supply Iran or whoever when that supplier is not based in USA. What gives the USA a global right to impose sanctions? If the USA tell companies such as Lucent, or Microsoft that are based in USA that they should not sell to Iran or whoever that is OK but what gives them the right to tell Siemens for example that they must not ship to XX?
Simple.
They’ve got all the guns & the nukes & the rest of the world kowtows.
How one sided is the UK/USA extradition business?
Very.
And not in our favour.
The unfortunate situation that most of the World expects when the rogue Nations and sundry bad guys act up the USA points out the error of their ways and Militarily if necessary. In order to prevent/ put off/circumvent the necessity of physical or ecconomic Violence the banning of such technologies that can benefit such regemes & bad actors must be banned to minamize the necessity of your son’s, daughters,& sundry relatives from Fighting & Dieing because Some Communist Nation and their lackey companies tightly intertwined with their military see advantage in causing instability in order to further their goal of World conquest