Malaysia vs Australia’s 5G strategy: what makes more sense?
During my trip to Malaysia, I noticed a Huawei store—something that’s become rare in Australia. While Huawei phones aren’t banned, they’re hard to find due to the lack of Google services and Australia’s reliance on Google them.
But it got me thinking: Australia has excluded Huawei from its 5G infrastructure, whereas Malaysia has taken a different approach by considering Huawei’s involvement in its 5G rollout. How do you view these differing tech strategies?
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The post was cross linked to austech on aussie.social. I guess deleting isn’t federated yet.
Those of us in the industry always saw this as a stupid move, ot was never about national security, it was always about politics. I don’t know if this is true but there was some speculation about the bans were in response to Huawei supplying gear to Iran who are on the US “no no list”.
Things really hasn’t changed since then, you are still banned from using Huawei gear for your radio access network, but you can install Ericsson or Nokia but hire Huaweis managed services division to manage your non Huawei radios.