Huawei Making Gains in Latin America Beyond Telecom: Strand Consult

Huawei is making strong inroads throughout Latin America despite U.S. national security concerns, blogged Silvia Elaluf-Calderwood of Strand Consult, Monday. U.S. demands “to restrict Huawei because of security concerns have fallen on deaf ears for most policymakers in Latin America,” she said. Elaluf-Calderwood warned that Huawei is growing its cloud and data business beyond telecom networks. “By over focusing on its most popular and current innovation 5G, the US failed to consider the role of unexpected competitors in different but important fields, like Huawei in clouds and data centres,” she said: “U.S. efforts to safeguard 5G mean little if Huawei stores and processes the data.”