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What a deal would be to buy second hand Chinese equipment at a discount to then ask the FCC to help you change it…

With (deserved) increased scrutiny in Huawei and friends, I'm half tempted to get the discarded gear to actually put in production use. China/Huawei is no longer in a position to pull something stupid.

Current gen functioning gear at a discount price will be very tempting.

What do you mean? China has economic problems, but international escalation is often a great way to distract from donestic problems.

Huawei was always subject to a much higher level of scrutiny for obvious reasons.

In the UK, for example since around 2010, Huawei turned over code to an independent oversight board: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/huawei-cyber-secu...

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