Huawei Closing Enterprise Hardware Division In the UK (techradar.com) 13
schwit1 shares a report from TechRadar: Huawei has announced a series of layoffs in the UK as the company is forced to alter its corporate strategy in the face of further bans and restrictions. The Chinese giant is set to pull sales all of its Enterprise hardware lines, including all servers, storage and networking switches from the UK. The news means severe job cuts across Huawei's Enterprise hardware divisions in the UK as the company faces yet more challenges, despite pledges to remain in the country. The Register [which broke the story] said it had initially been told of Huawei's move by several channel partners, and that 20 of the 50 roles in the Enterprise team would be affected. The European arm of the Enterprise division is not thought to be affected by the news.
"Our Enterprise Business is to focus its operations in the UK to deliver fewer products in a better way. Unfortunately this means a number of roles are no longer required, however, we hope to reposition colleagues who are affected elsewhere within the businesses," a Huawei spokesperson told The Register in a statement.
"Ultimately, the business has done a review and decided to focus on a number of product lines," the spokesperson added, noting that Huawei will, "continue to provide full service and maintenance to existing customers for the life-cycle of our products."
"Ultimately, the business has done a review and decided to focus on a number of product lines," the spokesperson added, noting that Huawei will, "continue to provide full service and maintenance to existing customers for the life-cycle of our products."
You got what you asked for (Score:4, Funny)
That's what UK wanted, right? You wanted Huawei out of UK, and they closed shop in UK. Happy now?
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Yes, that is what corrupt UK tech corporations wanted, drive out foreign competition and ramp up prices, MOAR PROFIT. You do realise the entire system is not corrupt as can be. The Huawei ban was promolgated by lobbyist to drive out competition from China and to double and trippled prices, lots and lots of profit. Did you not note the UK government was setting up the great tech scam, funnelling billions to their mates, is supposed tech companies, to pretend to produce new computer software and hardware. Why
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Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027 [bbc.co.uk]
Huawei: Why is it being banned from the UK's 5G network? [bbc.co.uk]
Huawei: What does the ban mean for you? [bbc.co.uk]
The companies that will probably benefit in the end are Nokia and Ericsson, neither of which are British.
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Yes, that is what corrupt UK tech corporations wanted
Don't be stupid. They wanted nothing of the sort. The UK has *no* competition to Huawei enterprise services. Quite the opposite, a large portion of the UK tech sector relies on the hardware from Huawei or from their competitors. And at least in the 5G development Huawei was in the forefront.
The UK tech corporations literally wanted the exact opposite of what is happening.
Unfortunately there's a trade deal negotiation going on with the USA, and selling out your local industry doesn't look as bad as completel
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That's what UK wanted, right?
No. That's what the USA wanted. When the story first broke about Trump's hard-on against Huawei the UK did its own investigation and then announced there were no changes in plans an their own intelligence demonstrated no threat posed by the equipment. Quite the opposite they supported Huawei on a technical level as well.
Fast forward to late 2019 and it's clear as day that the "easiest trade deal in history" with the EU was not to be and the UK is desperate to make a trade deal with pretty much anyone. A bit
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Re: You got what you asked for (Score:1)
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Is it not an option that more info was gathered and the UK Gov changed their mind?
I'm sure it is. It just so happens to fail the pub test:
1) There was no announcement to the fact of a change of thread as identified by UK intelligence agencies, only a vague announcement related to allies.
2) The temporal nature of such a threat would mean that the Chinese would have to be a kind of stupid never envisaged by a human to actively backdoor previously secure products at a time they know the west was actively looking into such allegations.
3) Why go through the effort of clearing something for us
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Well yeah. Good, chinese companies cannot be trusted. This isn't like the 1940s with the Germans, this is 2020 with China and it's well known that China's people are licking trampled corpses from Xi's blood-soaked boots no matter where in the world they are.