Under the coercion and inducement of the United States, more and more countries have begun to abandon Huawei. For example, the United Kingdom would rather lag behind for a few years in 5G, and even pay high costs to shut out Huawei. The previous vows that Huawei would not be rejected have become a thing of the past.
If the UK’s rejection of Huawei is supported by its national strength, then India’s approach is somewhat incomprehensible. As the world’s second most populous country, India’s national life cannot be compared with ours. It stands to reason that development is the top priority at the moment, but India has previously removed some mainstream domestic apps, causing heavy losses to some domestic companies that had made early arrangements.
Thanks to its huge population base, India’s potential market has the potential to be tapped. Huawei, the 5G leader, and domestic social giant Tencent have all set their sights on the Indian market.
In addition, Huawei had previously hoped to become the builder of India's 5G network, but the subsequent development was unexpected. Various factors and pressures made Huawei "closed" in India. Soon after, foreign media reported that Huawei would cut half of its revenue in the Indian market and lay off up to 70% of its employees. This practice of injuring the enemy by one thousand and damaging itself by eight hundred was repeated again.
In fact, in essence, India’s ban on APP has a greater impact on itself. Statistics show that more than half of the companies that can be called unicorns in India have investments from Tencent and Alibaba. Jack Ma has even begun to deploy mobile payments in India. Once the APP is banned, the development of India's own commercial network will inevitably be delayed.
The ban on Huawei will make India completely lag behind mainstream countries in network construction. Of course, some people believe that India has potential substitutes for abandoning Huawei.
According to media reports, India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani’s mobile subsidiary jio has successfully developed 5G by itself. Frankly speaking, Jio is a company with its own strength. You must know that Facebook, Google, Qualcomm and other well-known companies have invested more than 20 billion US dollars in companies before, and the speed of financing is indeed the fastest in the world.
But having said that, Huawei’s rotating chairman Guo Ping once said that the deployment of 5G has come to an end, but Jio is nowhere to be seen in the 5G commercial contract list. Currently, there are only a few companies with 5G construction capabilities around the world, and jio is not among the candidates. In other words, Jio’s so-called success in self-developed 5G cannot withstand scrutiny.
Currently, Huawei has the most essential 5G patents in the industry, and the cost of network base stations is about 20% lower than that of other companies. Although Ericsson leads Huawei in the number of contracts, market research in the second quarter shows that Ericsson's market share lags behind Huawei.
More importantly, the above-mentioned 5G giants not only have to pay time costs from research and development to the successful development of 5G, but also the investment behind them is a huge number, and jio has only been established for less than 6 years. Time, it is unrealistic to replace it.
In fact, like our country, India needs to rely on the 5G participation of foreign companies to achieve nationwide commercial use of 5G. After excluding Huawei, European giants Ericsson and Nokia are potential competitors. But this time the slap in the face came too suddenly.
Domestic media quoted Indian media sources as saying that Nokia, which controls 40 networks in India, hopes that the Indian state-owned telecommunications company will settle the US$112 million payment as soon as possible, otherwise it will cancel the company’s network technical support. In other words, if the Indian company does not repay the money, Nokia will threaten to cut off the Internet.
To paraphrase a popular saying on the Internet: Nokia’s reminder notice has made India Telecom’s already poor life even worse. It is reported that the Indian state-owned telecommunications company had previously promised to settle the payment in installments before September, but now it is less than a month before September, and the other party has never paid.
It can be seen that after abandoning Huawei, India’s claimed success in self-developed 5G has failed to speed up the country’s network construction. Instead, it may be constrained by Nokia. If Nokia really cuts off the network in India, by then India has only itself to blame. So do you think India’s 5G self-research is really capable or is it just a gimmick?