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

[John Lindsay]

Nov 17th 2011 President Obama visits Australia.

Mar 24th 2012 Huawei was banned from the NBN by our Attorney General.

April 24th VP Pence visits Australia and three months later this happens.

They’re good at waiting a while before they do what they’re told. 

John Lindsay
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> On 27 Jul 2017, at 8:50 pm, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm really confused by this bullshit.  I'm not saying Huawei is good or bad, but Vodafone is mostly built on them, so is Optus... not sure how much or if any Telstra has.  All carriers sell lots of their handsets.
> 
> I mean... ban them from everything, or leave them the f%$k alone... this inconsistency is just stupid.
> 
> Affecting an entire countries internet capacity of the Solomon Islands is just plain wrong. They should be able to chose whoever they want to build it.
> 
> 
> ...Skeeve
> 
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> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org <mailto: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.
> 
> http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-refuses-to-connect-to-undersea-cable-built-by-chinese-company-20170726-gxj9bf.html <http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-refuses-to-connect-to-undersea-cable-built-by-chinese-company-20170726-gxj9bf.html>
> 
> So, uh, don’t do that then, hey?
> 
>   - mark
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