Wireless Wars: China’s Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We’re Fighting Back, Jonathan Pelson

-About this book

As the world rolls out transformational 5G services, it has become increasingly clear that China may be able to disrupt—or even access—the wireless networks that carry our medical, financial, and even military communications.
This insider story from a telecommunications veteran uncovers how we got into this mess—and how to change the outcome.
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.
This book is about more than just 5G wireless services, which enable self-driving cars, advanced telemedicine, and transformational industrial capabilities. It’s about the dangers of placing our most sensitive information into the hands of foreign companies who answer to the Chinese Communist Party. And it’s about the technology giant that China is using to project its power around the world; Huawei, a global super-company that has surged from a local vendor to a $120 billion-a-year behemoth in just a few years.

 –CONTENTS

Prologue

Introduction

PART I :CREATING AN INDUSTRY

1The Study

2AT&T Creates a Business

3Retaking the Lead

4Losing the Plot

5Poverty and the Power of Communications

6The Price of Admission

7The Birth of Huawei

PART II :GIVING IT AWAY

8Rising Star

9Boom to Bust

10Deal or No Deal

11The Sincerest Form of Flattery

12A Foothold in Europe

13Sizing Up Huawei and the Global Marketplace

14The End—For Now

PART III :THE STUDENT BECOMES THE MASTER

15Culture and Credit Cards

16Brain Drain

17Hunting Big Game

18Leapfrog

19Sniffing Around the Nuclear Missiles

20Everyone Has a Price

21The Debt Trap

22Hacking a Continent

23Bugs in the Walls

PART IV :TOO MUCH AT STAKE

24Not If It’s War

25China’s Use of Tech to Oppress

26No Way Out?

275G Is Different

28Dangerous Designs: Why We Need to Care

29If It’s So Risky . . .

PART V :TAKING IT BACK

30Building a Response

31Our Superpower

32The Role of Government

33Riding the Wave of Chaos

34The New Ecosystem

Epilogue

A Note Regarding Sources

Acknowledgments

Notes

-Caractéristiques

Date de parution:28 septembre 2021

Éditeur ‏ : ‎ Benbella Books

Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais

NB.de pages : ‎ 328 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1953295614

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1953295613

Poids de l’article ‏ : ‎ 499 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.88 x 2.69 x 23.65 cm