Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei discussed the business’s function in 5G in a Thursday interview.
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Huawei manager Ren Zhengfei is minimizing the concept that there’s risk in his business’s taking a lead function as 5G networks end up being an extensive truth.
The creator and president of the Chinese telecom giant was describing the hard-line position by the United States — its long-running suggestion that United States business prevent Huawei networking devices and its cautioning to its allies not to utilize the business’s innovation in their own 5G rollouts. His remarks came Thursday in the 2nd part of an interview with CBS This Morning. (Note: CNET and CBS This Morning are both part of CBS.)
“They’ve been regarding 5G as the technology at the same level of the — some other military equipment. 5G is not an atomic bomb,” he stated.
That brand-new generation of cordless networking innovation will bring much quicker connections and minimized lag time, boding well for advances in locations like self-driving automobiles and telemedicine. The very first 5G smart devices will be showing up in the coming months.
Ren was all set to look beyond 5G to highlight his point.
“Now we are rolling out 5G, and soon we’ll welcome 6G. And in the future, I said there will be new equipment that is suitable for the United States.”
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Huawei is the world’s No. 1 telecom equipment supplier and No. 2 smartphone maker, but has struggled in the US due to the government’s guidance and allegations that it’s involved in Chinese espionage — something that Ren denied in the previous part of the CBS This Morning interview, which aired Wednesday.
Reports suggest that President Donald Trump will ban Chinese networking equipment with an executive order, while Vice President Mike Pence spoke out against the company at the Munich Security Conference this week.
However, Ren seemed pleased that the Trump administration was promoting 5G and his company.
“First of all, I would like to thank them because they are great figures,” he said. “5G was not known by common people. But now, these great figures are all talking about 5G. … And we’re becoming more influential and getting more contracts.”
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Despite the possibility of his company being banned from doing business in the US, Ren echoed his previous compliments about Trump.
“I think he is a great president because in a very short period of time, he was able to reduce the tax rate,” he said, joking that Huawei wasn’t very successful in the US anyway.
“Well, we have never had many sales in the United States. But we didn’t give up our efforts in this country.”
