Re: Its' about 5G
There's no telecom equipment company left in America... Motorola went back to do mobile phines and chips, Lucent merged with Alcatel before they ended up being gobbled by Nokia. Nortel, was cut in pieces and sold to others.
Right now the Telecom Equipment world runs on : Ericsson, Nokia ( both being Europeans ), Huawei, ZTE ( both Chinese ) and Samsung ( South Korean )... there's the Japanese too, but they are mostly limited to their own market.
Cisco cannot compete with any of the above when it comes to telecommunication networks... sure they make great products for the datacenters and even fore outside the datacenters, but they lack the knowledge and the tech.
Qualcomm is quite happy making chips everybody wants to buy. Telecom network equipment is not their core business... they don't need to go there, since they are already ubiquitous in all the equipments.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
