Eric Geller

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

On financing, Fick admits the US will never match China's state subsidies for Huawei/ZTE equipment — which helped make this gear attractive to developing countries — but he says "there are mechanisms we could deploy," e.g. DFC and Ex-Im, to cut costs for Western alternatives. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 29, 2022

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On Open RAN, Fick says "you want to break apart the black box" of proprietary tech, and given that incumbent vendors have "the goose that's laying the golden eggs," the USG should help open standards overcome their opposition through regulatory and other obstacles in its control. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 29, 2022

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When we spoke, Fick sounded pretty confident that more countries were starting to realize the risks of using Chinese-made 5G equipment. Chinese vendors' abuses have "violated their customers’ trust in empirical, technical ways," he said, "not just U.S.-political-megaphone ways." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 29, 2022