Posted on 07/15/2020 1:38:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Japanese information technology and electronics company and the country’s largest telecom operator announced plans to partner on research and development of secure 5G networks, challenging Chinese technology company Huawei, which has been designated a national security threat by the United States.
NTT, a Japanese telecommunication group, will acquire a 4.8 percent stake in NEC, a Japan-based telecom equipment-maker, for 64.5 billion yen ($597 million), to spur the development of a “made-in-Japan” 5G network, according to Nikkei Asian Review.
The Japanese government will provide financial support worth about 70 billion yen ($653 million) for domestic firms including NEC and Fujitsu to develop 5G equipment and networks. The government aid should allow Japan to gain a competitive advantage over Chinese telecommunications companies such as Huawei in the global 5G race.
NEC and NTT announced that the government aid will help them develop new competitive equipment and technologies that will ensure network security, Scott Foster, an analyst with Lightstream Research, in Japan, told Asia Times.
The funds will also be used to promote standardization of 5G networks using Open Radio Access Network standards (O-RAN) which will allow the combining of equipment pieces produced by multiple suppliers in a telecommunications network, thus reducing reliance on any one 5G vendor, Foster said.
Despite the government funding and a 15 percent tax break offered by the Japanese government to NEC and other telecom suppliers, Huawei’s equipment is 20 to 40 percent cheaper than Japanese alternatives, and Ericsson’s and Nokia’s are 10 to 20 percent cheaper, said Foster.
Huawei, however, is heavily subsidized by the Chinese regime, which gives it the ability to manufacture products and sell them at discounted prices far below international competitors, according to James Lewis, a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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About time that the Japanese got back into the game with electronics. I wish that my German car had used Japanese electronics instead of their ...whatever they’re calling their contrivances that purport to control electricity in cars.
As for Chinese electronics, as Thumper’s mother said.....
True. But unless the Japs start having babies, China will just walk in.
Or just buy Cisco and Ericsson equipment.
Cisco carries half the internet traffic on its routers and switches, and monitors billions of messages with its security software.
Cisco has its own Web video and collaboration software
solution Webex, and has Cloud, wifi, Lan , wan and wireless.
For some reason they didn’t compete in 5g radio smartphones
and that is why the US government should support the only
American company that could become a home grown serious
threat to the Chicomms.
Cisco has ties with Nokia and Ericsson but no joint 5g
as far as I know.
We need to leverage Cisco’s expertise or it will simply
only be a backbone supplier of high speed broadband.
Cisco has enough cash to buy a 5G company. What the hell are they thinking?
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