Tag: Huawei
China’s acquisition of foreign technology companies aimed at military modernization: Report
Peking [China]April 16 (ANI): China is using imports, foreign investment, commercial joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and industrial and technological espionage to help achieve its military modernization goals, Geopolitica.info reported. The US Department of Defense (DoD) had underlined in its 2021 report that the Chinese strategy includes multiple methods of acquiring foreign technology, especially those…
China’s espionage, data theft cause concern for Norway, Netherlands
Oslo [Norway]March 21 (ANI): China’s “state-sponsored” hackers, who did contract work in the service of state espionage, and data theft have become the main problem for Norway and the Netherlands, according to an article on Portal Plus authored by Valerio Fabbri. The hackers use a sophisticated mix of social engineering techniques, including using dating sites,…
15 leading Internet high-tech achievements were praised in China
HANGZHOU, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) — A total of 15 world-leading Internet scientific and technological achievements worldwide were honored on Wednesday in east China’s Zhejiang Province. The “IPv6+” standard formulation, device development and networking led by China Unicom, as well as the OpenEuler Open Source OS developed by Huawei were among the products recommended by a…
Apple was forced to change iPhone chargers in the EU due to new regulations
BRUSSELS, Belgium: To comply with new rules aimed at standardizing charging ports for most electronic devices, Apple will have to change chargers for its iPhones sold in the EU starting in fall 2024. The reform, the first of its kind in the world, was passed in the European Parliament this week and confirms an earlier…
The German technology fair IFA 2022 for home electronics opens
BERLIN, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) — The German technology fair IFA 2022 opened to the public in Berlin on Friday, for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2020, the fair was limited to professional visitors, while last year it was cancelled. Until Tuesday next week, 1,100 exhibitors from 46 countries and…
GLOBALink | The German technology fair IFA 2022 for home electronics opens
BERLIN, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) — The German technology fair IFA 2022 opened to the public in Berlin on Friday, for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2020, the fair was limited to professional visitors, while last year it was cancelled. Until Tuesday next week, 1,100 exhibitors from 46 countries and…
UPM makes record results, Nokia and Wärtsilä are also strong
More large Finnish companies announced brisk second quarter sales on Thursday. The comparable operating profit of Nokia, which manufactures wireless and fixed network equipment, was 714 million euros in April-June, compared to 682 million euros in the same period last year. Turnover rose to 5.87 billion euros in the second quarter, compared to 5.31 billion…
Dutch T-Mobile replaces China’s Huawei 5G technology with Swedish Ericsson
The Hague [Netherlands]July 7 (ANI): T-Mobile, the largest mobile network provider in the Netherlands, will stop building networks with Chinese Huawei because Swedish Ericsson will supply the new 5G radio network to T-Mobile. The contract with the current supplier Huawei, which was signed in 2017, will not be renewed. The decision was made after the…
Canada bans Huawei and ZTE from 5G networks
Ottawa, Canada – Canada will ban Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE from their 5G wireless networks due to national security concerns, officials said on Thursday. The long-awaited move follows the United States and other key allies and comes on the heels of a diplomatic dispute between Ottawa and Beijing over the detention of a…
Nokia, VTT Finland’s leading patent application list
Last year, the online company Nokia filed by far the largest number of patent applications in Finland, the National Board of Patents and Registration said on Sunday. Nokia Technologies filed 223 applications and Nokia Solutions and Networks 58. Together, they applied for 281 patents, compared to 259 the previous year. Previously, Nokia, the world’s largest…
Friday’s newspapers: EU guarantees, Nokia’s success and Mustonen’s return
Security policy has been in the news recently, and the security situation with Finland is being discussed with the United States, Russia and NATO, among others. On Thursday, it was the turn of the European Union to chair the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen came to Helsinki to meet the Prime Minister Sanna Marin…
European Court of Auditors: EU needs to step up cooperation on 5G
BRUSSELS, Belgium: An EU watchdog, the European Court of Auditors (ECA), has warned that the EU faces significant economic and security threats unless member states intensify cooperation to operate the 5G mobile network. The warnings are part of a special report on the 27-nation bloc’s preparations for 5G, which will have major technological innovations, but…
China has seen support for digital authoritarianism in Latin America
Chinese technology and expertise enable Venezuela and Cuba to exercise suffocating control over digital communications in the two countries, according to insider accounts and several international investigations. Venezuela and Cuba are doing more to block Internet access than any other government in Latin America, according to the US-based advocacy group Freedom House, which has documented…
Rights activists challenge China’s infamous detention methods
Washington [US], December 29 (ANI): Human rights activists have criticized China’s infamous Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL), stressing that Chinese authorities are torturing and forcing people without giving them the right to legal advice. RSDL is a form of deprivation of liberty used by Chinese authorities on those individuals who “endanger the security…
Finland is leading the way in the EU’s digital future
What we do now will determine what kind of future we have, and even whether we have a future at all. Unless we are able to release our collective energy once and for all, I am afraid we will be doomed. That is why the recent talent summit in Helsinki was so topical and important.…
Meng Wanzhou – The arrest of Huawei’s Crown Princess and the 5G War
Meng Wanzhou, born in 1972, grew up in Shenzhen, the small port city that will eventually be transformed into a kind of China equivalent of Silicon Valley. As the daughter of multi-billionaire and Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, she is a part of witnessing both the city’s and China’s transformation up close. After graduating, Meng Wanzhou…
The diplomatic game behind released Canadians
Ekot broadcasts directly that China has released two Canadian men who have been detained accused of espionage. The day before, a Chinese high-ranking executive at telecom giant Huawei reached a legal settlement and left Canada, where she was under house arrest. Listen to Beijing correspondent Björn Djurberg and China expert Hanna Sahlberg. The host is…
The Huawei 5G ban was legal, according to a Swedish court
A Swedish court on Tuesday rejected a plea from the Chinese telecom giant Huawei, which challenged the ban on its equipment in the Swedish tender for its 5G launch. The Administrative Court in Stockholm decided that the decision of the Swedish telecommunications authority, PTS, to ban the use of equipment from Chinese companies Huawei and…
Ericsson: Increased risk of losing in China
The telecommunications company Ericsson is now making a new assessment of the consequences for the company’s business in China after the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) excluded Chinese suppliers such as Huawei from the Swedish market. The risk has increased that Ericsson will have a significantly lower market share compared to the current market…
Nova criticizes the Telecommunications Act
Telecommunications company Nova says that the provision in the draft electronic communications law, currently under consideration by the Icelandic parliament of Althingi, infringes the great electronic communications interests of Iceland, which could lead to stagnation, delay various technological improvements and significantly reduce competition. The act stipulates that the minister of transport and communication may, after…
Säpo’s testimony: Huawei is a security threat
A 5G provider that is exposed to pressure will in the future be able to disrupt critical infrastructure such as the police and healthcare. This was claimed by the Security Police in the Administrative Court, which is examining Huawei’s appeal against the ban that excludes the company from the Swedish 5G network. Huawei believes that…
Hanna Sahlberg: Seen as being against China
H&M has ended up in windy weather in China. Adidas and Nike’s apps have also been removed from Huawei’s Chinese app store. The clothing companies oppose suspected forced labor in the Xinjiang region, but this is not the case in China, says Ekot’s commentator Hanna Sahlberg. “Both the government and a nationalist part of public…
Important message to the public in Björklinge, Skuttunge, Läby in Uppsala municipality, Uppsala county.
Canadian diplomats were today denied access to a high-profile trial in Beijing in which a Canadian citizen was accused of espionage. The case has led to a diplomatic crisis between China and Canada, which accuses China of arbitrarily detaining two Canadian citizens, after a Chinese top executive at the telecommunications company Huawei was arrested in…
China calls on Sweden to correct the mistake of excluding Chinese 5G companies
BEIJING, January 21 (Xinhua) – China has called on Sweden to immediately correct its erroneous method of excluding Chinese companies from building 5G networks in the European country. The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency has closed its 5G spectrum auction with additional conditions, which requires that telecom operators do not use equipment manufactured by Chinese…
Huawei commonly accused of spying in municipal broadband
The Chinese companies that are ported from the Swedish 5G network often occur in broadband networks. Equipment from Chinese Huawei or ZTE is the basis for almost a quarter of all broadband connections covered by the Swedish City Network Association, according to a new survey. The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency does not want to…
Xinhua world news overview at 0530 GMT, 3 January
LOS ANGELE – Nine people, including seven youths, lost their lives in a serious collision between an SUV and a pickup truck on State Route 33 in Fresno County, California on Friday, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) said Saturday. The crash occurred around 8pm local time (0400 GMT on Saturday) when the driver of the…
Ericsson’s CEO opposes the Swedish government’s ban on Huawei, ZTE: media
A guest tests a Huawei product during an event marking the 15th anniversary of Huawei Technologies Hungary Kft in Budapest, Hungary on October 20, 2020. (Xinhua / Attila Volgyi) In the announcements presented by the local newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Ericsson’s CEO said that Ericsson would leave Sweden if the authorities continue to keep the ban…
90-day Finn, Erdoğan critic and food poisoning: Finland in the world press
The system, which covers documents, health care and foreign housing, received more than 5,300 applications and is now closed. International publications also addressed how critics of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan In Finland, he was named in a terrorist trial conducted by a Turkish prosecutor. According to legal documents, the Turkish embassy in Finland…
Sweden continues with 5G network building without Huawei
Stockholm [Sweden]December 23 (ANI): In the midst of deteriorating relations with China, Sweden has decided to build its own 5G network without the Chinese company Huawei. The decision to exclude Huwaei was taken in line with the latest opinion polls in Sweden, which demanded the promotion of human rights and democratic reforms in China as…
The Swedish 5G auction will resume in 2021
The ban on two Chinese 5G providers, including Huawei, will apply again following a decision by the Court of Appeal. Thus, the postponed 5G auction may begin early next year, but Huawei is skeptical. “The uncertainty remains,” says the company’s Nordic manager Kenneth Fredriksen.
Huawei buds of companies under pressure from US sanctions
Chinese telecom giant Huawei, which is under pressure from US sanctions, has announced that due to a lack of technological components, it is selling a subsidiary in what is likely to be a multi-billion deal. “Huawei’s consumer business has been under tremendous pressure recently,” the Chinese telecom giant wrote in a statement this morning, Chinese…
Swedish 5G auction paused: “For uncertain location”
The Swedish 5G auction has been formally paused following an appeal from Chinese Huawei, which has largely been shut down as a supplier. On Friday, the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency, PTS, announced that it is appealing to the Court of Appeal and hopes to be able to start the 5G auction as soon as…
Xinhua world news overview at 0530 GMT on 10 November
LIMA – Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra said on Monday night that he will not question the congressional decision on prosecution and will “leave the presidential palace today.” Vizcarra made the remarks in a speech after a congressional vote to accuse him of bribery. (Peru Presidential indictment) – – – – BUENOS AIRES – Argentina reported…
Many surf with Chinese technology at home
This week came the news that Chinese Huawei and ZTE will not be allowed when Sweden’s 5G network is to be built. At the same time, there are very many who surf with technology from those in their homes. The message from PTS this week was clear; no technology from Huawei or ZTE may be…
Huawei: We’re surprised by the decision
The decision today from the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency to ban equipment from Chinese Huawei from the expansion of the 5G network in Sweden is surprising, both for the company and for the industry in general. This is what Kenneth Fredriksen, who is responsible for Huawei’s Nordic and Baltic operations, says. While Kenneth Fredriksen…
Tele2: Good that news has arrived
The announcement from the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency today that Chinese Huawei and ZTE will be ported from the Swedish 5g networks means that the conditions will be reversed for the mobile operators who use components from the two companies. – We do not think it is positive that the competition is reduced, but…
Säpo: “China poses one of the biggest threats”
On the recommendation of the Swedish Armed Forces and the Security Police, the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) bans the use of equipment from the Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE in the terms of the Swedish 5G auction. The assessment is that they risk damaging Sweden’s security through their connection to China. –…
Huawei not included in 5G auction
The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) bans the use of equipment from the Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE in the terms of the Swedish 5G auction. This is stated in a press release from PTS. The conditions have been designed to protect Sweden’s security, in accordance with the new legislation that came into…
New legislation must ensure credible 5G providers
The government will present legislation that will make it possible to ensure that Denmark has “credible suppliers” for the 5G network. This is what Minister of Defense Trine Bramsen (S) said on Friday at an open consultation on telecommunications and cyber security. – We must recognize that the telecommunications network is part of our critical…
