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  • Wireless Wars

  • China’s Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We’re Fighting Back
  • By: Jonathan Pelson
  • Narrated by: Chris Abell
  • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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By: Jonathan Pelson
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Summary

As the world rolls out transformational 5G services, it has become increasingly clear that China may be able to disrupt - or even access - the wireless networks that carry our medical, financial, and even military communications.

This insider story from a telecommunications veteran uncovers how we got into this mess - and how to change the outcome.

In Wireless Wars: China’s Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We’re Fighting Back, author Jon Pelson explains how America invented cellular technology, taught China how to make the gear, and then handed them the market. Pelson shares never-before-told stories from the executives and scientists who built the industry and describes how China undercut and destroyed competing equipment makers, freeing themselves to export their nation’s network gear - and their surveillance state. He also reveals China’s successful program to purchase the support of the world’s leading political, business, and military figures in their effort to control rival nations’ networks.

What’s more, Pelson draws on his lifelong experience in the telecommunications industry and remarkable access to the sector’s leaders to reveal how innovative companies can take on the Chinese threat and work with counterintelligence and cybersecurity experts to prevent China from closing the trap. He offers unparalleled insights into how 5G impacts businesses, national security, and you. Finally, Wireless Wars proposes how America can use its own unique superpower to retake the lead from China.

This audiobook is about more than just 5G wireless services, which enable self-driving cars, advanced telemedicine, and transformational industrial capabilities. It’s about the dangers of placing our most sensitive information into the hands of foreign companies who answer to the Chinese Communist Party. And it’s about the technology giant that China is using to project its power around the world; Huawei, a global super-company that has surged from a local vendor to a $120 billion-a-year behemoth in just a few years.

For anyone curious about the hottest issue at the intersection of technology and geopolitics, Wireless Wars offers an immersive crash course and an unforgettable story.

©2021 Jonathan Pelson (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing
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Fascinating insights in mobile industry

As someone who works in telecoms and tech this was a fascniating read. The book charts the rise and fall of Lucent Technologies and more importantly how Huawei's dominance in mobile network technology occured. Some pretty alarming stories in this book which will be an eye-opener for a few people.

I would caution it is a rather US-centric view of the world, but even with that caveat I can highly recommend it.

Ceratinly underlines why the decisions to ban Huawei infrastructure in Western markets were made.

The technological cold war is definitely in progess.

Ben W

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