[AusNOG] Solomon Islands loses landing rights for a cable in Sydney

[Jonathan Brewer]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 at 12:37, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:

> A submarine cable connecting Sydney to the Solomon Islands is being
> refused a landing permit in Sydney because it’s being built by Huawei.
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> http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-refuses-to-connect-to-undersea-cable-built-by-chinese-company-20170726-gxj9bf.html
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> So, uh, don’t do that then, hey?
>

You mean don't land in Australia, right?

We've got plenty of Huawei in New Zealand networks, including our UFB
network. (That's the one I get 1000/500 fibre service from for about AUD
$110/month). Guess what? It works. And it doesn't come with any more
spyware than Cisco or Juniper.

What's the Australian government's problem? Is it protectionism? Racism?
Something else?

-JB








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