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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They are not technology strategies, they are political ones.
Vodafone Australia (now trading as TPG) still use Huawei for wholesale and business fibre services in addition to still using Huawei for 3G and 4G for mobile services.
Source: ex telecommunications tech working on the towers Vodafone use.
@slazer2au Oh, interesting. I didn’t know that about Vodafone/TPG’s continued use of Huawei equipment. Thanks for sharing your experience.
For context, here’s the source I was originally referring to regarding Australia’s Huawei ban for 5G:
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/10155438
This article from 2018 outlines the Australian government’s decision to ban Huawei from the 5G rollout. It would be interesting to know how things have evolved since then, especially given what you’ve mentioned about existing infrastructure.
PS: Not sure how you responded to my deleted post haha, apologies in the mods in advance for the double post, not sure how I can delete it as I am on another fediverse
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.