There is a reddit user who recently said that China has designed their own GPRS but he didn’t realise that they stole it from the U.S in the early 90s when the U.S was working proactively with China after the fall of the USSR.
Moving along, Kenya is in a difficult position on deciding whether to use Huawei 5G or not :
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/kenya-caught-in-the-huawei-5g-battle/av-54839475?espv=1
GPRS sio kitu ngumu kwa world powers, both Russia and China wako na gprs yao na si ati waliiba
5G tutawekewa tuu… Resistance is futile…
[SIZE=7]The US complains that others steal its technology, but America was once a tech pirate itself[/SIZE]
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A spinning jenny: one of the machines that revolutionized manufacturing in the late 1700s.
In 1787, American agent Andrew Mitchell was intercepted by British authorities as he was trying to smuggle new technology out of the UK.
His trunk was seized after being loaded on board a ship. Inside the trunk were models and drawings of one Britain’s great industrial machines.
Mitchell himself was able to escape and sought refuge in Denmark. But his mission marks the start of a sustained US campaign to steal technology from the world’s hi-tech superpower of the day.
Mitchell was sent by Pennsylvanian economist and businessman, Tench Coxe, a close associate of Alexander Hamilton who was soon to become the first Secretary of the United States Treasury. Hamilton and Coxe were both convinced of the need for America to industrialize.
Their ideas are articulated in a Report on Manufactures presented to Congress in 1791. The report reminded Congress of the enormous problems the Americans had had during the Revolution because of the shortages of all kinds of military supplies, from guns and ships to shoes and uniforms.
At the time of the American Revolution, the 13 colonies were overwhelmingly agrarian and rural. Hamilton also believed in the importance of America developing its stock of capital, so it could invest in big economic and infrastructure projects. So the report urged Congress to do everything possible to nurture and protect manufacturing in America.
Historian Doron Ben-Altar describes Hamilton’s campaign as “unabashed, state-sanctioned flouting of British law.” Ben-Altar argues that Hamilton acted as though intellectual property, like physical property, was confined by national frontiers. Hamilton had already won one victory at the constitutional convention, by adding the power to issue patents to the federal government. Benjamin Franklin apparently opposed the measure: he never applied for patent protection for any of his inventions, arguing they belonged to all mankind.
Hamilton used patents to lure immigrants with skills and knowledge to move to the United States. George Parkinson, for example, was awarded a patent in 1791 for a textile spinning machine, which was really just a rip-off of a machine he had used in England. The United States also paid his family’s expenses to emigrate and re-locate to the US.
Coxe and Hamilton also helped set up various “societies for encouraging manufactures and useful arts.”
The Brits were not happy about the attempts to steal their intellectual property. Severe penalties were on the books for anyone trying to take machines or designs out of the country, or even to lure skilled workers. It was actually illegal for such skilled workers to leave the country. One man who eluded the British authorities was Samuel Slater, who heard about the US incentives and made his way to Rhode Island in 1789.
Slater had been apprenticed to a textile factory owner in England and brought his knowledge of the new cotton carding and spinning machines in use there. He became a partner with Rhode Island businessman, Moses Brown, and together they set up the first cotton factory in the US.
Slater became so rich that at the time of his death, his net worth amounted to one tenth of a percent of the country’s gross national product. In 1810, Massachusetts businessman Francis Cabot Lowell visited England and spent his time trying to figure out how the Brits had managed to automate the process of weaving cloth. He charmed his way into factories and attempted to memorize what he saw. Back in New England, he worked with a clockmaker and managed to reproduce the weaving machine. Soon he and his Boston associates built a whole new city on the Merrimac River to house their new textile factories. The city was ultimately named Lowell after the enterprising spy.
The drive to acquire foreign intellectual property died down in the early 19th century, as home-grown Yankee ingenuity came to the fore, supported by American venture capital. However, America’s industrial development in the first generation after independence was not guaranteed, and we can thank Hamilton for providing state support and protection of these new businesses.
Maybe the same will ultimately happen with China in the 21st century.
Vodafone will allow safaricom to work with Huawei. Same reason they sold Mpesa to Safaricom.
3g/4g made FAANG(Facebook, Amazon ,Netflix ,Google ) what they are today.(Zukerbags,Bezos the billionaire et al)
Lesson the Chinese learned is ,that whoever owns the platform (wires,cables etc) also has some command on the apps,services and data needed to run businesses on the said platform.
Finland walijaribu na 2g network ile ya Nokia 3310 but waligonga mwamba when they failed to upgrade/invent 3g/4g or plus…
Now we have 5g from chinkus .Once fully operational ,the next wave of tech billionaires will be Chinese/5g. That’s even why Trump being fighting China’s race to be the 5g leader.
5G though has massive implications on privacy/free speech etc due it’s use of cameras. (For example Nairobi CBD imejaa facial recognition cameras za Huawei ) I could go on and on with this essay, but I digress.
We shall revisit
Iyo 5g ikuje Bana. USA injua iyo ndio kichapo Chao- lumboko
maisha haitasimama ju USA ni wajinga hawana akili kama ya China. 5 G ikuom, USA wabaki wakiplay catchup.
Even corruption will now go with the speed of 5G. Imagine the speed with which Otieno I-cloud will alter IMFIS records, weh!!!
Can I ask you a few questions?
What is the penetration rate of 5G within China herself?
How many provinces, towns, cities etc within China have rolled out this 5G networks that they are selling to the rest of the world?
How many Chinese can afford a 5G phone or device ?
What devices in the world today are 5G ready apart from expensive high end smartphones?
Point is there are a lot of lies concerning this 5G manenos.
Some customers don’t really need 5G. For instance if you get 5G in Kenya will you throw away your WiFi router and buy that 4G/5G broadband gadget?
There are also a lot of cost implications at play here.
China in my view is more interested in selling 5G than using it herself. Huawei simply wants to make money. The Chinese govt. meanwhile wants to be in a position where every state on earth is using Huawei based networks so they can “listen in”. Maybe to grab more research in the interwebs…
And the U.S and their NSA have shown that listening in does not really stop 9/11.
china hoiyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
With 5g , you don’t even need a phone!
"Their"cameras will automatically detect you. Alafu now you have encrypted devices.
With 5G ;any data in your phone or whatever…they’ll have it . I could go on but huwezi nielewa .
Kuna hizi (facial recognition) camera zimejaa huku KE everywhere being installed chini ya maji …Kwanza Nairobi cbd .Ngoja tuu
A.I cameras kama zile ziko huko Xinjiang China used to monitor Uyghurs?
But those rely on ordinary Chinese govt. Fibre networks not 5G.
watupee 5g phuck privacy
The US already listens, so it wont be any different an experience using Chinese 5G. Google products have been known to snoop in on private communication. At least in this case, we already know china is listening so we dont have to pass info we wouldnt want China to know over the very 5G.
About usage, what matters is we need 5G, China has it.
for what?
Xiaomi and realme are already producing sub 200 dollar 5g smartphones. the future is dragon
Wanaume basi watwangwane vilivyo.
For America to become a superpower they kicked ass proper. It doesn’t get handed to you, I guess China will have to earn it.
I imagine before the Japanese could force their cars into the American market and later dominate the whole planet they must’ve gone through hell.
Na hio Xiaomi unasifu hivyo, ikitingishwa, how much U.S technology do you think will fall out???