A British merchant being carried by a Sikkimese lady on her back.
West Bengal circa 1903.
Posted on 12/23/2018 7:49:04 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The detailed reason for this arrest has been revealed. Huawei CFO Wanzhou Meng is suspected of conspiracy to defraud multiple financial US institutions. The US Judiciary found that there was a company called Skycom that traded with Iran during 2011–2014 and Huawei was suspected to control the company Skycom at that time.
So the accusation is about the old Iran sanctions 7 years ago. And you might wonder why someone brought this up at this particular time.
There is something else that you need to know to understand this incident.
Global 5G Battle
5G is the fifth generation of cellular mobile communications. It succeeds the 4G (LTE/WiMax), 3G (UMTS) and 2G (GSM) systems. 5G is the new critical node for the future global supply chain. This is the ultimate technology that determines the communication/mobile networks in the next 10 years. Therefore this is a big cake that everyone wants to get a slice from it.
The whole 5G framework can be divided into two key technology: the modem chipset and router infrastructure. On one hand, the modem chipset is installed in your phones and other sensors that need to be connected to the Internet.
The current 5G modem chipset patent (IP) is held by:
Huawei (China), Qualcomm (US), Samsung (Korea), MediaTek (Taiwan), Intel (US), Apple (US) (rumoured). On the other hand, the router infrastructure is placed in base stations all over the buildings and towers. It directly talks to the 5G modem in your mobile phones and translates your 5G requests to the Internet.
The current 5G router patent (IP) is held by:
Huawei (China), Nokia (Finland), Ericsson (Sweden), ZTE (China) Surprise Hah?, Cisco (US), Samsung (Korea).
There are two hidden traps from this 5G technology that other people might not tell you:
The router and the modem chipset must be compatible, and therefore a standard must be settled in order for them to talk.
The modem chipset is deeply coupled into the system on a single chip with CPU and GPUs. The system is normally shipped as a package.
If you hold the 5G modem IP in a SOC (System-on-chip), you can also bind your CPU and GPU IP in a package. That means whoever controls the 5G IP would also control the whole market of the CPU and GPU intellectual property. If you hold the 5G router standard, you can also control the modem standard and then control the whole system standard.
For example, if the US were to allow Huawei to sell its 5G router devices to Verizon or AT&T, then Huawei could make all of its base stations to only support its own modem standard. Then you could end up with the whole system package delivered by Huawei as well. Then the US might have to buy more devices made by Huawei in order to use 5G.
That’s how Qualcomm rose from a small company to the top simply based on its 3G patents. And you can see that Huawei and Samsung is the dominant player here that they both control the modem and router patents.
However, owing to the pressure of the US government, Samsung surrendered its chip IP right to US companies. This is the fundamental difference between Samsung and Huawei. Because the South Korean market is so small and therefore Samsung has to surrender to the US in order to survive.
Samsung Galaxy S10 Comes with Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC and 5G Service – Tech News Watch
You might wonder why Samsung does not use its Exynos processors in US but it has to use Qualcomm one? That is the pressure from the US government.
Meanwhile, Huawei gets the full cultivation in the Chinese market and does not fear the US government. It never intends to go to the US market as well. What it focuses on is the adoption in China and the rest of third-world countries. If you read the following recent news, you can get a feeling that China is really leading the global 5G battle in all three fields: technology, adoption and market.
Chongqing launches first 5G trial network
‘World’s first’ 5G call completed by Vodafone and Huawei
China Mobile and China Unicom to start 5G trials | TelecomLead
Briefing: China’s mobile operators granted nationwide 5G licenses · TechNode
The Chinese government said it would perform nationwide 5G adoption using Huawei technology around March 2019. Please note that this is a market of 1.4 billion people that is US population and Europe population combined. And the Chinese government is pushing this really hard, unlike the US stuck in legislation as you can imagine.
Meanwhile, the first adoption of 5G belongs to South Korea, which is four months ahead of China:
South Korean carriers set surprise commercial 5G launch for December 1 And compared to the US government, both Chinese and Korean government are very efficient in promoting 5G infrastructures. In this manner, US companies are really lagging behind. This could firstly cause wide-spread fears among the US companies. It is very likely that those companies would lobby the US Congress to ban Huawei at first. The arrest happens just before the Huawei 5G technology is going to be adopted commercially in China.
It is very likely that some people wanted to disrupt the growth of Huawei. Everyone talks about the Huawei arrest. But no one is talking about who initiated the investigation against Huawei and who filed the case in the US juridical system in the first place?
Another interesting side note during the incident:
Cisco temporarily bans employees from China
I suspect CISCO could be the one who actually filed the case to ban Huawei.
Having 5G waves surrounding us is going to be like living in a microwave oven.
Maybe this is why Samsung hasn’t released it’s S9 Active yet …
I've been seeing a ton of alarming articles about 5G. At first I thought it was the usual conspiracy theory stuff, but more and more people in the mainstream are now questioning the safety of the technology.
I heard the 5 g is a bad frequency because rain interferes with it’s transmission. I suspect it is in the range of microwave ovens as someone else mentioned.
I am concerned about 5G health wise also
We still have a land line since the narrow valley where we live has poor cell phone reception. We use a booster with the outdoor antenna mounted 60’ up in an oak tree (I put it up there when the wife was away baby sitting, because she would have never allowed me to do it). Lately we have wondered about the microwave/radiation effect and decided that, just to be on the safe side, turn off the booster at night and sometimes during the day. It has helped to wean us off the smart phones a little. In fact, since our contract expired last month, I have been looking at going back to a basic cell phone.
They’re going to use 5G to read minds. It’s all a conspiracy, you know—everything!
LOL!
Maybe a devious way for Trudeau and the Deep State to make Trump look bad to the Chinese at the recent Trade delegation.
Idiocy written by a fool.
spying not 5G
The article completely fails to mention the little problems of spyware and industrial espionage, which are favorite pastimes of the Chinese. Is this article commissioned by the government of China as an attempt to deflect attention away from its on-going efforts to steal intellectual property and state secrets?
Thanks for posting the whole thing.
I better understand, now, all the 5G, 4G, etc. talk.
What is not explained is what the difference means to individuals with cell phones.
(Full disclosure: I’ve never used or owned a cell phone.)
RE: Idiocy written by a fool
Can you please elaborate?
“Having 5G waves surrounding us is going to be like living in a microwave oven.”
Nonsense.
There are 2 types of EM radiation regarding effects on animals and people. Ionizing and non-ionizing. Ionizing can change DNA, leading to cancer.
As you go up in frequency, from DC to ultra high energy gamma, the effects move from heating the surface, deeper and deeper, to ionizing. Where is the cutoff? UV. UltraViolet. In sunrays. UVC in particular is bad. UVA, not so much.
Where in the spectrum is all of this technology? Waaaay below UV of any kind. Waaay below Infrared, even. Below heat lamps. Below the radiation from space heaters. Below the radiation of an incandescent light bulb.
And they broadcast with less than a Watt of power. It all, on highest power, is less dangerous than the infrared heat given off by a 3 Watt dashboard light in your car.
Hold one of those dashlights to your head, heck, stick it in your mouth, you won’t get cancer, nor get heated up like a microwave oven. That dashlight gives off more power, at a higher frequency, than any cell phone. So does your non-LED flashlight. So does your dog—it gives off infrared warmth. And so does the sun, when you turn your face up to feel the warmth. The heat your face receives from the sun is more power, and higher frequency, than any cellphone. Or router. Or powerlines in your walls. Etc.
So much crap floating around by people who don’t have basic science knowledge.
“Having 5G waves surrounding us is going to be like living in a microwave oven.”
Do you think they care?
Looks like a great job for the lazy liberals.
“There are 2 types of EM radiation regarding effects on animals and people. Ionizing and non-ionizing.”
That’s my understanding. Is it possible that the fast switching (sharp edges) occurring in digital circuits could emit spikes of ionizing radiation?
Is it possible that the producer of microwaves in a microwave oven produces ionizing-frequency spikes.
“Is it possible that the fast switching (sharp edges) occurring in digital circuits could emit spikes of ionizing radiation?”
No. There are strict laws against EMI—ElectroMagnetic Interference. UL and other independent test labs verify. Often the tiny writing on labels of electronic equipment say they comply with FCC rule xxx. That encompases it.
“Is it possible that the producer of microwaves in a microwave oven produces ionizing-frequency spikes”
It might inside, but not outside. They are faraday caged against EM leakqge, and also tested for compliance.
You have very good electronic knowledge re leading edge spikes, btw. Intereresting topic. Sharp transitions in a voltage/current waves send harmonics screaming out. The sharper the edge, the higher amplitude the harmonics. They come across the radio as that noise...ultimate is spark gap generator. They drown out everything. If you use an antenna as 1 part of it, you would knock signals out all over the place. Illegal as hell, just sayin...lol.
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