hey everyone welcome back to our Channel I'm Julia Beauchamp on my last video
about the Huawei band I got a lot of really great questions from you guys so
I wanted to take some time today to go through them I read all the government
documents I read all the articles so you don't have to stick around
it was awesome to see that all of you guys had such great feedback and such
really good questions I know it's really confusing and it seems like it changes
daily and even since we posted that video a lot has changed so I'm gonna go
through some of your questions as well as some other sort of confusing points a
lot of what's going on between the u.s. and the ban on business transactions
with Huawei has to do with these alleged security concerns
so because Huawei is a Chinese tech company the US government alleges that
it is sort of at the will of the Chinese government and if the Chinese government
ever ordered Huawei to spy on users it would have to comply with such so that's
why for a while Huawei hasn't been allowed in US government agencies think
US executive agencies like the Department of Defense or the State
Department but now this ban is much more broad reaching it reaches virtually
everyone in the United States as well as a lot of people throughout the world
because the Huawei ban has to do with US businesses not being able to work with
Huawei so that means businesses like Google which supplies Android Microsoft
were supplies Windows as well as a lot of chip makers so that's all we know
that's going on right now so far I'm pretty sure I didn't miss anything but
if there's anything big that stands out to you let me know in the comments like
I said I love hearing from you guys so now let's get into some of your more
specific questions a lot of you asked should I buy XYZ phone and I've
responded to some of you but here's my sort of general answer whether or not
you should buy a Huawei phone right now really depends on where in the world you
live if you live in the US it is going to be probably pretty difficult to get a
Huawei phone and you're probably not going to be able to use it very well
that being said if you're in some of the other Huawei markets like in Asia like
in Europe it's not necessarily a bad idea to buy a Huawei phone people love
Huawei phones they're great phones but whether or not you should buy a specific
phone is also up to your preference on whether or not you want full fat Android
so if having access to full fat Android is something that's really really
important - you just make sure you buy one of the
Huawei phones that were released before this fans started that's the p30 the
mate 20 P 20 mate 10 P 10 we'll have a list of these and those will have as of
right now access to all of the Android apps that you love security updates and
so on but if you're looking for a new huawei phone like the mate 30 that is
not going to have Android it's going to have sort of huawei's bare-bones version
of Android which is still a fine operating system but if you are dying to
have something like the Google Play Store the Gmail app probably not for you
so we also got another great question from user wicked howl they asked the
band applied to honor phones because that's sort of a huawei brand yes it
does apply to honor phones so like I said any older honor phones will
currently have Android will get security updates any new ones will not will have
that open-source version of Android and actually this ban applies to more than
just Huawei it's really Chinese tech companies as a whole another big one is
ZTE Huawei is just sort of the most notable company that's why it's sort of
been called a huawei ban so in a similar vein about whether or not you guys
should buy whatever Huawei phone is whether or not you should buy any Huawei
laptop some good news here is that Microsoft was actually one of the
companies granted a license to work with Huawei so the Commerce Department made
all of the companies that want to work with Huawei apply for a license we know
for a fact Microsoft got one we don't necessarily know what the specifications
of that license are but it's probably likely that Microsoft will be able to
supply Huawei with Windows so even though we know that Microsoft was
granted a license we don't know whether or not Google was granted a license so
that's why I'm saying be cautious about phones but laptops you're probably in
the clear on November 19th that's when another temporary reprieve was supposed
to end the Commerce Department the US government granted another temporary
reprieve that's now supposed to go through February 2020 so that's when the
US companies can continue to work with Huawei
either sort of phase out their use or continue to deliver our security updates
another big big thing that happened is that the FCC here in the US the Federal
Communications Commission barred telecom companies from using Huawei in their
networks this has been sort of a general consensus cut we all kind of knew that
this was coming and this really only applies to the small rural telecoms in
the u.s. the big big carriers they Sprint t-mobile AT&T Verizon they
probably didn't have that much Huawei equipment to begin with just because of
this sort of contentious relationship between the u.s. and Huawei but now it's
set in stone it's official any rural telecom company that relies on the FCC
for funds is not allowed to use Huawei equipment there's no word yet though on
whether or not the US government is going to subsidize this whole rip and
replace effort obviously these rural telecom companies aren't as huge they
don't have as much money as the big telecoms like Verizon so it is gonna be
a pretty costly endeavor there was some speculation some mumbling in Congress
about giving these rural telecom companies I think 700 million dollars
let me know if you've heard something different or if you've heard of the
Hustons go into effect I couldn't find anything but if we could hear more about
this soon because some of this is set in stone it is law you have to rip it out
and replace it if you were using more way Huawei has pretty cheap equipment
which is why it was so appealing for rural telecom companies to use but now
that they're not allowed to theirs needs to be some sort of solution I will keep
you updated if we find out more about that I am sure we're gonna hear more
especially into 2020 when a lot of 5g phones are supposed to come out the goal
is by 2022 for China to completely replace any foreign made hardware or
software so that's phones laptops computers all cannot be foreign-made now
this could be just sort of another move in the ongoing us-china trade war I
honestly couldn't tell you whether or not this is going to change but as more
negotiations continue to happen we might hurt here
before I let you guys go I do have one more big piece of news and if that China
is trying to replace all foreign hardware and software by the end of 2020
- allegedly so the goal over the next three years is to try and replace any
hardware any software so that means phones that means computers that are
foreign made this could be just sort of a jab at the u.s. because of the ongoing
trade war it could be negotiated away it's kind of hard to tell right now but
I will absolutely absolutely keep you guys updated thank you all for watching
this video like I said at the beginning I really love seeing your questions your
comments your opinions so if you have any be sure to leave them down below if
you have any specific questions I will try my best to get back to them either
in the comments or in another video and as always I love seeing your thoughts
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