[Cowboy Bob]

Mexico or China?

[ConservativeMind]

I would have to guess that any manufacturing was moving to China, because they were laying off large numbers of employees in Central America.

[Tallguy]

Gee... I guess importing all that ‘cheap-labor’ from Syria didn’t work out so well after all?

[Pappy Smear]

This is bad news in the US. I work for a cellular carrier. There are only a few major cellular hardware makers. The US Government has told the cell carriers that they won't do business with cell companies that have hardware from Chinese makers Huwaei and ZTE. The govt feels that the Chinese companies have backdoors in their equipment, that makes it easy for the Chinese government to hack cellular networks.

So my company uses Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson, partly because they are perceived as more secure. The word in my company is the Huwaei and ZTE basically were trying to give away cellular hardware to our company, because they wanted into the US market so badly. Other than some very small regional companies, the Chinese cellular hardware makers have not entered the US market.

Ericsson leaving Sweden may be a long term issue for US cellular network security.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Any kin to the John Ericsson who designed the USS Monitor?