Did Huawei just win a tech war?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This week Huawei was given permission to build parts of the new 5G network in the UK. But, because Huawei is a Chinese company, there’s a lot of concern about it. What if China, which we know spies on its own people, uses Huawei to spy on us? The US has been urging us to reconsider, stressing that it needs to be sure that America’s allies have trusted information networks. Is it to do with the risk of espionage or is there something else going on? We speak to Garrett Graff, a journalist and author who writes about national security for Wired Magazine. We also hear from Gordon Corera, the BBC’s Security Correspondent, about the company and whether it really poses a threat to our safety. Presenter: Matthew Price Producer: Katie Gunning Mixed by Emma Crowe Editor: Philly Beaumont

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.4	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:08.1	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.7	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today, did Huawei just win a tech war? 5G is on. This is the beginning of a new era.
0:37.0	The future is here.
0:40.0	And it started in a Chinese fishing village just over 20 years ago. Have you heard of Huawei?
0:47.0	Maybe you're listening to this on a Huawei phone, even if you're not, you're likely to use Huawei probably most days without even knowing it.
0:55.9	And the company has now been told it is being allowed to help bring 5G to Britain.
1:02.4	Now, 5G sounds like a number and a letter but actually it's a
1:07.9	revolution. Everything is set and ready. The time is now.
1:15.0	5G is on.
1:18.0	And we're speaking to a couple of experts who've been investigating Huawei for years to talk us
1:22.0	through how this revolution has been a battle
1:24.5	between two of the world's big powers. It's a revolution that's going to
1:28.0	transform our lives and hopefully end that annoying buffering that you still sometimes get.
1:35.0	Now this is how Garrett Graf, a journalist who writes for Wired magazine explains just how huge this 5G moment is.
1:44.0	The move from 4G, which is what we use now to 5G, this fifth generation of wireless technology
1:52.4	that is beginning to roll out across the world is more like
1:55.9	the move from fax machines to the internet.
2:00.3	The 5G speeds will be not just a little bit faster, but potentially a hundred times faster than what we rely on now for our wireless networks.
2:16.9	So there will be no delay between you doing something and that thing actually being done.
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