Author ｜ Odin

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February 2020, 9 months after Trump included Huawei on the entity list.

U.S. President Trump, on the phone, knew that the British Prime Minister Johnson would allow Huawei to build a 5G infrastructure in the UK, and was very disappointed. Even with Johnson’s repeated explanations, Trump still got angry and dropped the phone on the spot. Originally, the two of them had another meeting in March 2020, but Trump angrily canceled the appointment. After 3 months, British media reports , the UK may be under pressure to consider phasing out Huawei equipment from the UK ’s 5G network by 2023.

The above is not a novel plot, but a grand record News in the news also reflects how nervous the United States is facing China ’s 5G advantage and how weak the European government is.


The United States was the birthplace of the modern communications industry. Why did it become so passive in the 5G era?

If it is explained in one sentence, it can be said that the United States today lacks the network infrastructure industry.

For the reason, it ’s a long story, and we must start talking about the history of the US mobile industry.

Speak from the first real mobile phone

On April 3, 1973, Motorola, a small company at the time, an engineer named Martin Cooper, holding a rectangular box, asked Joel Engel, then director of AT & T, the giant of the US communications industry, Send a phone message:

Joel, this is Martin. I used a cell phone to call you, a real hand-held mobile phone.

This machine is the world ’s first real mobile phone, and this is also the world ’s first “real mobile phone” call-although European and American countries had mobile phones at that time, they were all as bulky as desktop computers (left in the picture below) ). Ten years later, this mobile phone named DynaTAC (pictured below right) was officially launched, which is also The first generation of mobile communication system -the official debut of the 1G system.

On the left is the “mobile phone” Senator launched by Nokia ’s predecessor Mobira in 1984, weighing 22 pounds, and on the right is Motorola ’s global launch in 1983 The first “mobile phone” DynaTAC weighs only 2 pounds, you can imagine how beautiful Motorola was. Image source: