Tommi Uitto, the head of Nokia’s mobile division, is running around crying to the media that China might ban Western vendors over “national security” concerns.

He said that high-ranking Chinese officials verbally confirmed that China plans to ban Western vendors like Nokia and Ericsson from its market on national security grounds. “That is a pretty drastic statement,” he cried to a Finnish newspaper. Drastic? what’s truly drastic is getting your butt handed to you in the open market and then immediately begging politicians to rig the game for you.

This sudden concern for “fairness” from Nokia comes just days after an Omdia report revealed that Huawei has officially overtaken Nokia to become the number two RAN vendor in the world outside of China. Despite years of a relentless US-led smear campaign and crippling sanctions.. Huawei is still winning. It is the top vendor in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

So, what does a sore loser like Nokia do when it’s being thoroughly out-innovated and out-competed? If you’re Tommi you run to the press and beg for a government bailout in the form of political retaliation. His logic is that if we’re getting shut out of China ( Nokia and Ericsson have a combined 3% market share anyway) then the EU should force its own major telcos to rip out superior and cost-effective Huawei installations across Europe.

“We are not a political actor,” Tommi claims. He’s demanding the EU Commission enforce its “5G toolkit” to punish his Chinese rivals and hand Nokia unearned market share.

This exposes the great Western tech scam for what it is. First, the sanctions were meant to kill them technologically. That didn’t work.

Second, the US tried to bring up an alternative with its “Open RAN”. The idea was to break up the network so American specialists could get a piece of the pie. The result? A complete and utter flop. As Dell’Oro’s research shows the market is more concentrated than ever and the “supplier diversity” dream is dead. Open RAN has simply become another name for Ericsson and Nokia.

Now, faced with the undeniable quality of Huawei’s gear tech in MIMO and GaN power amplifiers that Nokia and Ericsson were years behind on.. their only remaining strategy is to cry. European giants like Telefónica, Deutsche Telekom, and Vodafone continue to use Huawei for a simple reason: it’s better. Ericsson’s own CEO has admitted they can’t compete with Huawei’s “aggressive” offerings without destroying their margins.

In Finnish, the phrase for “stirring the pot” is ‘kattilan sekoittaminen’. Poor Tommi, Tommi, stop crying like that. instead of stirring the pot in Brussels, try stirring up some genuine innovation in your R&D department. Just a thought.