Strand: Trump Will Deepen Focus on Security, Move Away From ORAN
President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration “promises to make deregulation cool again” and deepen the focus on network security, John Strand of Strand Consult blogged this week. “Network security policy is essentially bipartisan and will continue, if not strengthen, and indeed,…
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it spans many years across both parties,” Strand wrote. Mobile telecom networks “are critical infrastructure on which every nation’s digital economy and information society depends.” China won’t change its ways and “foreign actors will shift production and investment away from China and [move] to other parts of the world.” However, China will continue making "financial and geopolitical offers to nations which are difficult to refuse ... [and] defend itself more aggressively." Beijing will do this “by building on the narrative that it is a peaceful nation that wants enterprise and that the US and others should not meddle in what they sell to who[m].” Strand said the second Trump administration will distance itself from the focus on open radio access networks. “OpenRAN has failed as a commercial and security solution,” he said: “Its interoperable interfaces and software are not 1:1 substitutes for classic network technologies, and the effort includes participation of Chinese government companies, making it insecure.”