Thread by @wmhuo168

Huawei and China Telecom just launched a 5G-A uplink tech that puts the U.S. telecom system to shame. What they built in China can't be replicated in America. Not now. Maybe not ever. 🧵

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China Telecom, Huawei debut 5G-A uplink tech share.google/x0fJ1pKHzU91gz…

This isn’t just a product launch. It’s the result of a system that still functions. One that builds instead of debates. Huawei’s uplink tech is faster, leaner, and more future-proof than anything deployed in the U.S. (2/13)

China treated 5G like NASA treated the Moon landing. A national mission. Huawei didn’t wait for a market signal. It built what the country needed. (3/13)

They deployed fiber and towers everywhere. Not just in cities. Not just for show. Real coverage across provinces, highways, tunnels, and factory zones. (4/13)

China has one standard. One policy. One network plan. It’s not run by 50 regulators, five lobbyists, and three hedge funds. (5/13)

Huawei controls the stack. It makes its own chips, designs its own radios, builds its own OS, and sells the phone. That’s why 5G-A uplink works. (6/13)

And they focused on the uplink. The part that matters for machines, wearables, factories, remote surgery, and real-time control. Upload speeds are now a strategic asset. (7/13)

Now compare that to the U.S.: spectrum gets auctioned to the highest bidder, then hoarded. There’s no national rollout, only carrier ads and dead zones. (8/13)

Even in major cities, 5G is spotty. In rural America, it might as well be 2005. (9/13)

U.S. carriers depend on foreign vendors and third-party contractors. Nothing is built in-house. Innovation is outsourced. (10/13)

There is no American Huawei. No one who controls the full pipeline from chip to tower to phone. Just a pile of vendors stapled together. (11/13)

And while China builds uplink-first networks for the real economy, the U.S. debates which agency gets to regulate what. Nothing gets built. (12/13)

China is wiring its economy for the next 30 years. The U.S. is still stuck in the lobbyist-led telecom bubble of 2005. The future won’t wait for a bailout. (13/13)