Germany To Ban Huawei From Future 6G Network in Sovereignty Push (bloomberg.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/13/1842225/germany-to-ban-huawei-from-future-6g-network-in-sovereignty-push
- Source link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-13/germany-to-ban-huawei-from-future-6g-network-in-sovereignty-push
> "We have decided within the government that everywhere it's possible we'll replace components, for example in the 5G network, with components we have produced ourselves," Merz told a business conference in Berlin on Thursday. "And we won't allow any components from China in the 6G network."
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> Europe is increasingly concerned about its reliance on foreign technology, ranging from Asian semiconductors to US artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure, as trade and geopolitical tensions threaten critical supply chains. Germany last year ordered telecom operators to remove Huawei equipment from their core networks, citing risks to national security. Berlin is now considering using public funds to pay Deutsche Telekom AG and others to strip out Chinese gear, Bloomberg News reported last month.
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Systemic Problem (Score:4, Interesting)
Europe wants to have digital sovereignty, but the reality is its tech sector has lagged far behind in innovation. Why is there no Apple or Google of Europe? Having worked with many startup founders in the US and several in Europe, the conclusion I've come to is: it is infinitely more difficult to create a tech startup in Europe than the USA. Regulations around employment make it very hard to recruit for a startup, people stay at their jobs as it's far harder for them to get hired and fired than in the US. If you're not a well-connected descendent of the aristocracy or nobility, raising money is far more difficult as well. Silicon Valley has two things Europe won't do: Unenforceability of most noncompetes, and overtime-exempt at-will employment. As brutal as these things can be, they're core institutions that resulted in successful tech startups.
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Having worked at European tech startups, my experience was a different one: There are such startups, but as soon as they become mildly successful, they are sold off to large international corporations and thus stop being European companies. The US "hire and fire"-mentality or non-competition clauses had nothing to do with it. To me it seems that a somewhat larger ratio of US startup founders want their company to become really big before they sell it, also at the risk of gambling their company to venture ca
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Culture is hard to fix.
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Well yeah... if they want to avoid more tariffs. Without economic sovereignty there is no sovereignty . The only real sovereigns are the billionaires that are being given all our public resources
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Indeed depending on any single source contradicts "sovereignty", especially if the manufacturer(s) are located in foreign countries. Creating a reliable infrastructure would require having different devices from different vendors, from different countries.