Huawei has signed a strategic agreement with the company …

Chinese giant Huawei and Russian telecommunications company MTS have signed an agreement to develop a 5G network. The initiative agreed in Moscow, as part of a side event of the bilateral meeting between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, will begin next year.

"The agreement provides for the development of 5G technologies and the pilot launch of fifth-generation networks in 2019-2020," MTS said in a statement issued by the British newspaper. The Guardian. Guo Ping, one of Huawei's rotating presidents, said he was "very pleased" with the agreement, saying that 5G is an area of ​​strategic importance. In addition to the thirty pacts signed by the two leaders on Wednesday, they also promised to further strengthen cooperation between the two countries.

For more than a month, Huawei, the largest manufacturer of telecommunication equipment, has been denounced by the United States for alleged acts of espionage. Charges denied by the Chinese giant. But the charges ceased to be rhetorical and came to fruition two weeks ago when the White House included the company on a "blacklist" and banned local companies from providing supplies to Huawei, for the purpose to break their production line.

In the midst of this conflict, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced yesterday that it has granted licenses for commercial use of 5G networks to China Telecom companies , China Mobile, China Unicom and China Broadcasting Network. In its statement, the ministry said in its statement that the measure opens a "new era" in the telecommunications sector in China and that, although it has only allowed four local companies, it continues to Open the market to foreign companies. in the market.

"5G technology will establish a new generation of information infrastructure, fast, mobile and secure," said Minister of Industry Miao Wei during a presentation in Beijing. According to him, 5G technology will provide new opportunities and facilitate the growth of the Chinese digital economy. "This will also speed up the transformation of many industries and will be used more intensively in sectors such as the industry and the automobile." Among other things, this advanced technology is used for the development of automatic vehicles.

According to a report from the Chinese Academy of Information and Communication Technologies, this technology will generate economic deployment and more than three million jobs between 2020 and 2025. In addition, the 5G network will to exchange information and data at a much faster speed. to which the current 4G do.

The fight for this new technology is what lies behind the crusade between the two powers. The Chinese company Huawei has taken the lead in the development of 5G, surpbading that of the United States, which tries with various maneuvers to stop the progress of the Asian society.

Washington's decision to include Huawei on its blacklist has raised concerns around the world as to how the measure will affect the products of the Chinese giant and the countries that use this technology. For the moment, the weak point of Chinese companies – but also of the United States – is that the paradigm shift requires many US semiconductor companies and components, such as Qualcomm, Nvidia, Intel, Xilinx, Skyworks. Solutions and Macom Technologies. Meanwhile, pending new resolutions, Huawei denounced the United States and asked a Texas court to lift Donald Trump's presidential veto.