Thursday, June 25, 2020

5G Brazil - Politics fully enters into the discussion

The regeneration of the Ministry of Communications serves President Jair Bolsonaro to seek internal solutions to the possibility of impeachment and settle the situation of Huawei with 5G, externally.

The surprising recreation of the Ministry of Communications in Brazil was not to fulfill some old yearning of the telecommunications sector, but the product of the plain and simple entry of politics into an area in which it had been absent since 2010 (when the then Minister Helio Costa, included the ISDB digital TV system in the Brazilian government's foreign policy program, led by Lula da Silva).

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