Canadian Broadband → Re: Distributel now offering Huawei MT130U as DOCSIS3 option

Many governments have banned the use of Huawei equipment by their incumbents out of fear that they might have Chinese backdoors built-in. That might partly explain why there are almost no references to it beyond DSLR and Acanac. Few are in any hurry to buy Huawei stuff until they clear their name.

Scarce information on OEM/provider-only bulk-sale items is not unheard of, Alcatel does little more than acknowledge that the Cellpipe 7130 exists with a very sparse spec sheet.

Same goes for those Camatel modems pushed by Acanac. On a good note, they're good units, most likely bcm chipset and the price ain't bad either.

I wouldn't touch that Huawei stuff either, who knows what backdoors are in the product.

Very likely you won't see spying on cheapo CPE equipments as they are a lot more cost sensitive down to the $0.20 capacitors.

As an individual, you have almost no value for spying by China. Would you worry about what .iso you download or what you thing about our emperor Harper? We are not exactly next door neighbor to China here. Worry about being spy on by the Canadian government and the US first as that can get you into hot water easily.

The part that governments worry about are their telecom gear for the providers. U.S. have certainly worked with companies to sneak spying equipments into copiers/printers etc. so they fear the same done to them.

You can wear your tin foil hat as much as you want, but almost everything consumer buy is made in China these days including the brands that you trusts...

lol clear there name of what all we all have is the USA saying without any proof them dastardly Chinese are up to no good.
if a back door gets discovered there history ....get the hint ....its just propganda after all 230+ fbi agents are running around canada for a long time and we never here what they are spying on.....

just leav e pron and you will be loved ROFL paranoia and all you USE based hardware BY law has to have backdoors in it as well as software now....so what are you after really ...its ok for americans to spy on you but not chinese? ROFL what a joke...

Huawei has an Ottawa R&D center. With the fall of Nortel, bad economy etc. not a bad thing to bring some tech employment to this dying town.

It is always good to use some leverage as well as some hedging with the Americans. May be we can add some RFQ for Chinese fighters too?

I'm just glad that somebody is investing in local manufacturing. Too much of it is pulling out and heading off to China. Good to see some come back and take advantage of our skilled workforce and decent infrastructure. I've been involved with a company that got shaken up pretty bad because 2 of their large industrial clients decided to close up shop here in Ontario.

A foreign government doesn't give a flyin' fuck about what a Canadian individual is doing with his home Internet account. Those backdoors would kill the company's sales, so chances are that they aren't in there in the first place.

But they MAY be in the new Huawei/Bell Mobility Canadian cell towers along the US border, listening to any US phone transmissions that the Chinese may find interesting.
If you think this is far-fetched, consider the US EP3 planes that continuously fly dangerously close to the Chinese mainland, in Taiwan straits, and the south China sea, listening, listening.
China has to get back at the US somehow.

I'd rather have a chinese back-doored modem than an American back-doored modem.

Pick your poison.