News on China's scientific and technological development.
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That's what I thought. AFAIK, AT&T doesn't manufacture 5G telecommunication equipment. Even Qualcomm is mainly in chip manufacturing and not in telecommunication equipment manufacturing and its application.
The point is not it being "hack proof" which is a bonus. The fact is the Chinese is maturing in implementing this new technology by holding light for nearly one hour, ahead of Germany which formally held the record of holding light for one minute.
Qualcomm is mainly in designing SoC for smartphones.
The US is far behind Europe - Sweden and to some extent Finland, when it coems to 5G. They do control a lot of the software and chip side of it though. Europe is behind China on 5G. The US doesn't manufacture its own 5G equipemnt outside of niche chips (which China can mostly do for itself in this domain) but then again the US doesn't really have to. The only true difference is the time between rollout and applications. China's been at it for two years and FAR more applications have been around for at least a year. Europe's starting to do rollout and applications while Australian and US 5G are a joke compared to Chinese, Korean, and European equivalents. The services offered are still relatively restricted.
The problem with US Hi Tech in the hardware space is that its far more lucrative to make over priced stuff for Uncle Sam protected by "National Security" restrictions and milk those profits than to compete commercially against real competitors!
Take Motorola as an example, a proud heritage in telecommunications and early innovator ends up splitting the company selling off the handset and patent portfolio leaving the shareholders with a rump company selling to quote "communications products and services to public safety and government agencies (law enforcement, fire, emergency medical services, and national government security) and private entities including utilities, mining, energy, manufacturing, hospitality, retail, transportation and logistics"
The more the US budget goes towards the defence department the more companies that need capital to grow with gravitate towards it because unlike software you are risking real actual capital rather than sweat equity to make things happen, why do that in a competitive marketplace when you might actually get beat when you can just sell to a captive market!
