It concerns me how 5G has a huge PR push behind it, while academic papers seem to be in a state of confusion and uncertainty, particularly around the 50GHz line (most 5G standards, including the current EU standard, is only up to 27GHz, but the US allows up to 86GHz)<p>The most reputable papers I'm aware of are<p>> Frequency and Irradiation Time-dependant Antiproliferative Effect of Low-power Millimeter Waves on RPMI 7932 Human Melanoma Cell Line (2005)<p>> Effects of Millimeter Wave Exposure on Termite Behavior (2011)
Similar articles from 2 month ago with the same title: "US asks allies to drop Huawei" <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513249" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513249</a><p>British Telecom bars Huawei's 5G kit from core of network
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18616459" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18616459</a><p>Or this article from 5 months ago <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17824757" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17824757</a><p>Or this article from 1 year ago <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16378846" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16378846</a><p>All these articles cover the same story, while not giving any "smoking gun" evidence of huawei wrongdoing, slowly destroying their public image.
Is there a legitimate security concern or is it that Huawei is a potential threat to companies here in the US who sell similar or same products for far more?<p>Call me pessimistic, but anytime a government tells me something is a national security threat, my b.s. detector starts to go off.<p>Not to go completely on a tangent, but the goals of the US republic are to protect its elite. Everything else is just a distraction, IMO.