The US government explicitly asks Germany, Italy and Japan to ban the use of equipment manufactured by Huawei in its national deployments of 5G technology , after having done it previously in their government and in their own domestic market , and also tried with Australia , Canada and South Korea . Previously, the Trump administration blocked through a presidential executive order the acquisition of Qualcomm by Broadcom , also as part of a set of initiatives aimed at trying to avoid Huawei's dominance over 5G patents .
The problem? That Huawei is one of the companies that has invested the most in research for the development of 5G , is clearly located at the center of that ecosystem , and giving up using their equipment supposes, quite possibly, becoming a laggard in the deployment of a of the technologies that will most influence the competitiveness of the future, which allows us to connect millions of devices in the so-called internet of things, sensorise all types of infrastructures, objects or vehicles, and enable, for example, the development of technologies important and strategic as autonomous driving.
Saying no to Huawei means delayed, less competitive and, probably, more expensive deployments, and also, there is a justification between non-existent and complex: for the moment, nobody has been able to demonstrate any of the suspicions of possible espionage or national security problems alleged by the North American government in a report of the Congress dated in the year 2012 : the supposed evidences, obviously refuted by the company , seem to be to have very little real base . In addition, the company has made clear its intentions to manage its huge portfolio of patents through FRAND standards , aimed at ensuring fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory agreements .
Everything indicates that the intentions of the United States are not to protect against alleged espionage maneuvers that are nothing more than simple hypotheses without evidence, but to stage an authentic war for the control of the standards of the latest generation of technological networks The United States has defined as completely strategic . The successive US blockade attempts on Huawei would, therefore, simply be a way of trying to prevent the current Chinese dominance over 5G technology and its patents from becoming a future total leadership , one more episode of the commercial war that the Trump administration has launched against the Asian giant, a battle in which the countries that the United States considers as its allies play simply a role of pawns willing to delay, make less competitive or make more expensive the development of one of the technologies that will most mark the future evolution of technology.