Summary of Jonathan Pelson's Wireless Wars

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Get the Summary of Jonathan Pelson's Wireless Wars in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Wireless Wars: China's Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We're Fighting Back, author Jon Pelson explains how America invented cellular technology, taught China how to make the gear, and then handed them the market. Pelson shares never-before-told stories from the executives and scientists who built the industry and describes how China undercut and destroyed competing equipment makers, freeing themselves to export their nation’s network gear—and their surveillance state. He also reveals China’s successful program to purchase the support of the world’s leading political, business, and military figures in their effort to control rival nations’ networks.

What’s more, Pelson draws on his lifelong experience in the telecommunications industry and remarkable access to the sector’s leaders to reveal how innovative companies can take on the Chinese threat and work with counterintelligence and cybersecurity experts to prevent China from closing the trap. He offers unparalleled insights into how 5G impacts businesses, national security and you. Finally, Wireless Wars proposes how America can use its own unique superpower to retake the lead from China.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669341369

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Insights on Jonathan Pelson's Wireless Wars

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

During her time in China, the author worked with a company that sold telecom equipment to Chinese companies. She learned that Chinese executives were often willing to pay bribes to get better deals on telecom products, and her company began offering business classes to educate Chinese executives on Western business practices.

#2

The Five Eyes countries, consisting of the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, had been growing suspicious of Huawei. In 2020, they were proven right when a pandemic known as COVID-19 struck, and China was completely unprepared.

#3

The author visited the headquarters of Huawei, the Chinese company that was set to build the network, and was shown a presentation about how the company planned to use the data.

#4

The rise of Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE occurred at the same time as the dot-com bubble, which led to the collapse of the service provider sector, the main consumers of telecom equipment makers.

#5

The collapse of telecoms in September 2011 indicates more than just the loss of one industry sector. It signifies the loss of all critical infrastructures, which are dependent on telecom networks to operate.

#6

The Chinese government has long used surveillance to control its citizens, and it is now doing the same to Americans.

#7

The author visited the factory of a Chinese company that produces equipment for the US prison system, including handcuffs and restraints. The factory is located in the US-Mexico border town of Reynosa, Mexico.

#8

The United States blocked chip sales to Huawei, and then blocked the sale of chip fabrication equipment to companies that made chips for Huawei. China responded by banning the sale of equipment to American companies.

#9

The author explains how the world’s leading network equipment companies, such as