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5G or not 5G, that is the

question?

If you've been paying attention to the media recently you've T-Mobile in January filed a lawsuit against Huawei for
noticed that Huawei has been making a lot of headlines. In stealing patents related to its mobile technology. The FBI
the past year, the CEO's daughter, and Chief Financial Officer, and CIA have been very clear that Huawei products have
Meng Wanzhou, was held in Vancouver on suspicion of inside been inspected and noted that information is being shared
trading in Saudi Arabia. This whole ordeal has opened the back to the Chinese government. We've now come to a point
eyes of many people in North America of just exactly what where the United States is boycotting Huawei and I think it's
Huawei is doing. The bigger question is why important to understand that Huawei is the
does this Chinese technological advance second largest communication company and
company comes with some great features at product maker of smartphones in the world.
a very low cost? The Huawei p20 is one of the Making it now in the top five. India, Africa,
most advanced cellphones with an amazing China with populations in the billions are able
camera technology. to afford this inexpensive technology. The
benefit of North America is we still have the
Huawei is one of the reasons Nortel options to consider but they come at a cost.
Communications ended up going bankrupt.
It's a proven fact that Huawei stole the The Canadian government has currently
technology to create its own Chinese communication looked at other options pertaining to 5G networks across
company. Protected under the government of the Republic the country. The United States has already started installing
of China, Canada had no sanctions to sue them. This is the and implementing 5G through major cities. Canada to keep
company that is trying to come back into North America competitive, and allowing it to be up to speed with the latest
and sell its product, yet we lost a powerful communication technology, has a large hurdle to get over. Due to the mass
company with patents that put it in the forefront of all of our country, it's not easy to install technology at a level
communication companies. of pace that the United States can do. We have many rural
areas that are still on dial-up technology, and in some cases

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