The chief technology officer of Huawei's networking business told a reporter that its efforts on developing an independent 5G network would be more challenging to the state. The US has recently discouraged other states from acquiring Huawei equipment in developing 5g networks in their country and has restricted market access of the Chinese tech giant within its territory.
In an interview with CNBC, the chief technology officer of Huawei Paul Scanlan claimed that the US would be more challenged by developing its own 5G network without the help of the company's services. He also raised that it took Huawei 10 years to create and implement its 5G technology.
He also claimed that the technical standards and actual implementation of the 5G system were built from complex ideas and if the US wishes to create its own, it would lag behind developments in the market today.
Earlier this year, Republican senator Marco Rubio and other bipartisan lawmakers in the US announced the country's willingness to allocate one billion USD in Western-based alternatives to Huawei's and ZTE 5g equipment.
United Kingdom economic house advisor Tobias Ellwood who is also the chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee claimed that the state would partner with Australia, Canada, the US, and New Zealand to develop the said 5G technology.
Ellwood claimed that although the UK welcomes limited access to Huawei into its market, the state would need to create an alternative soon. He raised that Ericsson, Nokia, and Cisco would need to coordinate to create the network with the help of international state funding.
Rubio and other lawmakers then called upon the US government to fund an open-source 5G equipment game architecture. The said game would allow players to participate in the networking equipment and contribute specific components to compete with Huawei.
At present, there are groups working on the open-source architecture on top of existing publicly available infrastructure. Thus, the report claimed that they would develop the 5G network but have yet to achieve major traction.
Scanlan further claimed that the US and its partners do not have the capacity as a collective group to compete against Huawei as of the moment. He also said that it may not be impossible to go against Huawei, but underinvestment values may affect its development.
According to US attorney general William Barr, the government may go against Huawei properly if it would garner controlling stakes of Ericsson and Nokia. He said that the US' financial muscle could eliminate the delay concerns and allow the state to control such developments.
