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A NOTE ABOUT CHINA’s TECHNOLOGY GIANT — HUAWEI:

The America can stop Huawei’s 5G deployment in the U.S. by refusing to share its Sub-6 government-owned bandwidths.

But Huawei seemed poised to set the global 5G standard due to 30 percent lower pricing, high reliability products, and Chinese bank financing.

Any 5G company in the USA has to take into account this — they are not competing with a purely private company. They are competing with a WHOLE COUNTRY whose resources are unlimited and focused on dominating this technology.

This article is full of FUD. The International Telecommunications Union agreed to set aside the spectrum. Huawei didn't get to pick spectrum at will.

The US military operates many systems on frequencies that are not available in much of the world, including parts of the US. Korea is especially tough. The reason the 4G LTE upgrade worked out is that military was forced to give up exclusive use for part of the L-band and had no chance to claim any spectrum in the bands formerly used by UHF television.

re: “Military Warns China’s 5G Technology Interferes with U.S. Weapons”

THIS is not a big obstacle; 24 hrs AFTER commercial AC mains power is cut ALL these 5G (as well as the other) BSs will cease to perform their intended function ...

With 100 times faster speeds than 4G, telecommunications suppliers from the U.S., South Korea, and Japan were preparing to roll out a 5G upgrade beginning in 2022 by focusing on internationally available radio “High Band” spectrum between ~24 and 300 GHz, commonly referred to as “mmWave.”

But the Chinese government with $180 billion in state-sponsored investments has taken the lead in the development of low-cost 5G equipment. Claiming that Sub-6 will provide broad area network coverage with lower interruption risk due to mmWave’s longer wavelength, China’s Huawei and ZTE have installed 350,000 domestic and 10,000 foreign 5G operable base stations that combine “Sub-6” and High Band spectrum. Small-scale deployment has begun, with Huawei is promising global 5G networks in 2020.

Hm. I'm not sure how low-band spectrum is useful for high-speed 5G? The lower frequencies don't have the bandwidth for any kind of high-data high-speed transmissions. Military stuff that runs on this isn't hi-def, it's a minimal amount of data. BUT, low frequencies have a much farther reach. They don't deteriorate as quickly, so you can have a stronger signal that gets farther around the world.

So, aside from maybe admin link or sync stuff, I don;t really see how the low bands are technically useful for hi-speed stuff. It's almost definitely an "Interfere with the US Army" type of build intent.