@jaketapper@RivadaNetworks Jake, I see you haven't got around to answering any of my earlier responses to the above tweet. Has your source hung you out to dry now on the 'no competition' thing? Is that the reason that you put the qualifier 'essentially' in? Are they busy but will 'get right back' to you?
@jaketapper@RivadaNetworks Do remember to ask them about the owner of the company you work for, and if they asked for a sole-source/zero competition award on the 5G spectrum. We never did you see, as in *it never happened*. But do ask about them.
@jaketapper@RivadaNetworks One more thing, lest there be risk of moving goal posts. Let's not pretend I denied “senior officials are alarmed,” which is not what I denied (I've no idea what your 'sources' told you). I deny the substance of the story, the 'without competition' bit, sourcing is your problem.
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1. I am very satisfied with the apology received from RTE before the High Court today, together with the substantial financial settlement reached.
2. It's regrettable that I had to initiate these defamation proceedings arising from RTE’s Prime Time broadcast on 27th Nov 08 in order to vindicate my reputation & had to prosecute the claim to this stage before reaching settlement.
3. However, I'm delighted with the result & today’s formal apology from @rte
Just watched a hilarious @CNN report claiming that the White House wants to "fast track a contract for Rivada without a competitive process" (a lie). and that it would be "the biggest hand off of economic power to a single entity in history"🤣. Who owns @CNN? That's right, AT&T.
I was wondering when AT&T would roll out @CNN to spin their spin and it didn't take long. It's amazing. You hear the guy say "without a competitive process" with a straight face. I see that they were given this exact quote in writing:
"If we were offered a no bid contract we would turn it down..."
Was it referenced in the 'News' piece? No, of course it wasn't.
With news today of Sweden’s ban on #Huawei#5G, we are updating the status map we’ve kept going for over two years.
Sweden goes full ban blue.
For those that might be wondering why the UK is still shown as red, the ban is not yet in place in the UK as the telecom bill hasn’t yet been presented to parliament, needs to go through second reading, committee stage, 3rd reading, Lords, then to Royal Assent.
I also remain on guard as I suspect that if U.S. sanctions banning component supplies to Huawei were to change for any reason, I think that’ll be taken as a cue by the carriers, backed by a parallel policy from Beijing, to try to reverse that almost but not quite yet a ban, ban.
I've long warned that #Huawei#5G was the tip of the spear of the China's Communist Party's strategy to extend its global power & reach. Nice of their propaganda sheet to make it official:
"Kicking out Huawei equipment from British networks will considerably increase the financial burdens for service providers, delay 5G rollout in the country, hurt relations with China, darken the UK's post-Brexit economic prospects, and erode confidence in...
...the UK's long-standing reputation as a market economy.
British telecom operators from EE to Three have aired concerns about the high cost of replacing Huawei. They are foremost victims of politicization."
Something that needs to be said regarding China and who got what wrong etc. What I’ll call ‘the Kissinger school’ on the PRC had a point, which was engagement would bring openness, a middle class would end the CPC tyranny etc. I can’t fault them for trying & it was worth a shot.
I never subscribed to it because my experiences formed me to know that Communism in any form, is unredeemable badness. It elevates and rewards the worst traits in humanity. Genuinely good people do not make it up the ranks in remotely sufficient numbers, & that’s being generous.
What we can’t fall back into is any sense of complacency re the Communist Party of China. We need commitment in the West to do what we can to bring about an end of their reign of terror. We have to cut ourselves off from the sugar high of their cash, their stuff & their influence
1. A new development over the last 24 hours in Communist China.
Regarding shipments of PPE, they have now further restricted what gets to leave, ostensibly to prevent substandard PPE leaving. In recent days I’ve tweeted about how scarcity of freight space was being manipulated.
2. The new restrictions placed yesterday require special certification from the manufacturer, in short, new traceability rules. That link the products right to the machine & production line. Effectively this means only PPE manufactured in China can now be exported.
3. There’s a lot of the world’s stock of top quality PPE in warehouses in China, stuff that was bought up & shipped to China before the world fully understood the risk. This stock is ‘the best stuff’. Some of it has been purchased by donors & others to bring back to the West.