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a project to teach digital assistants lesser known languages. from stephen beers in berlin thanks for watching. the next generation mobile standard in germany hits the auction block today telecoms companies will bid for radio frequencies to operate ultra fast five g. mobile networks the only technology to make autonomous driving possible on a wide scale for example so far the bettors are deutsche telekom britain's vodafone spain's telefonica and newcomer a german newcomer united internet it's brand one and one has no network of its own . in other parts of the world five g. has already taken off in asia pacific region there are forecast to be around one hundred twenty million five g. subscriptions by two thousand and twenty one now we're vendor ericsson expects north america to be in second place with forty eight million subscriptions followed by europe which one and two million subscriptions lead america will start off with

just three million and africa in the near east with two million. and let's talk now to our financial correspondent frankfurt conrad booze and. conrad big auction today how much money is this expected to fetch and how telecom carriers how much money do they stand to make from these networks. experts predict that the auction will fetch an amount between three and five billion euros which is far less than the carriers have to pay at previous auctions you know at the beginning of the century for example where they paid an amount of fifteen billion euros how much telecom carry a stand to make that's very difficult to predict the government makes a lot of all the geishas for the carriers in this auction the government wants that the internet gets foster everywhere in germany also possible country where very few people live so the investments that the keris have to make might not all turn out

to be profitable in the end. and konrad briefly there's been a bit of controversy around the selection process hasn't there. yes the controversy is go the controversy is also going on you know the basic question is shouldn't the government shouldn't the state invest in this basic infrastructure and then allow the carriers to provide the services we need faster internet in germany germany's own the in the only in the middle if you compare it to other countries in terms of fast internet that basically have to change if we want business is to stay competitive. car a boon for us in frankfurt thank you colorado. there's an even bigger controversy surrounding build out of the five g. network in germany as well as the rest of europe almost every major telecom carrier says they need network gear from hardware provider huawei to meet cost and deadline but the u.s. has been pressuring its allies to prohibit the chinese telecom giant and it hasn't

let up. remote brain surgery in china the patient was in the beijing hospital a neurosurgeon three thousand kilometers away in the southern island province of high none of the light images and medical data were transmitted by an ultra fast five g. wireless network with video conferencing and other technology from quad way this is just the latest example of the game changing use of new super fast five g. networks europe also wants to use the technology but the space in a problem that way is one of the main producers of five g. hardware but the company is said to be too close to the chinese government apart from unconfirmed allegations of espionage there are concerns that follow a technology could pose a security risk if it were used in sensitive infrastructure in europe. have to recognize that china is also pursuing its interests through economic policy so we mustn't be naive when it comes to important infrastructure projects like the

awarding of a license once for good it sounds. complicating the move to next generation mobile standards is pressure from the u.s. not to use while away hardware china's foreign minister y. e meeting in brussels with counterparts called security warnings groundless and politically motivated and suggested they were designed to discredit huawei. build up to now wireless network operators in the e.u. could decide themselves whose technology they. put in some countries in the block the debate is growing about how to restrict the use of equipment from non european companies that could pose a risk to critical infrastructure and that could affect huawei. now for more on this i'm joined in studio by businesses clifford couldn't clifford in light of this austin auction that's happening today can we even say that the german government is really unified in their position on huawei i don't think we can because we have two issues here basically we have a political issue and then we have

a security issue and they're kind of at loggerheads at the moment on the one hand trade is massive with china it's one hundred thirty billion euros a year on the other hand you have the possibilities that there could be security issues with using weiwei equipment so the government is trying to balance these two quite different positions so i think it's fair to say that they're not quite unified on this is it realistic for a government like the german government for any nation to completely prohibit while way as a hardware provider it's getting very difficult provides the really the best equipment the big european manufacturers seem to have fallen behind although they claim they have and they also provide at the right price so it's very difficult not to introduce this because five g. is such an amazing technology no government is willing to be the one to say that we're not going to have it because of security concerns. this also comes as a question in europe why we should say not just within germany about using huawei

and this comes as the e.u. itself is sort of taken to heart attack against china. in recent weeks what he tells there you know with the e.u. has started talking about china now as a strategic rival it's changing its view a little bit on the china has before it seemed to do to make a lot of concessions when it came to dealing with china now it's taking a harder line so i think i think the huawei falls into this a little bit particular it comes to things like level playing fields which is a big issue for in trade talks you know would china allow german companies to bid for a five g. license it's very unlikely so there's a lot of these sort of debates coming up and i think before this auction is over we're going to see a lot more of these sort of questions being raised and discussed now briefly a lot of accusations out there about huawei have we seen any evidence yet that makes them suggest they are a trojan horse to beijing there's been no real concrete evidence there's been a couple of cases that have been linked to while away but very little has been proven it's more the question of the possibility i think that's where the security experts are always looking at risk management so i think they see it because of its

links to the government they see it as a possible risk to our own so something we'll keep watching clifford couldn't do any business in studio thank you very much clifford. the romanian town of ramadi had big plans to become the largest chinese business and trade center in eastern europe but was started with great fanfare is now a vacant lot with leaking roofs chinatown it turns out is closed for business. chinatown in the romanian capital bucharest it was to become a hub of trade in chinese goods in the balkans the egyptian merchants sat at aqua was there from the beginning. the halls are empty the project a complete failure the chinese market didn't have a chance against already existing markets in bucharest three thousand square meters of hall space has become utterly useless. if you've. got the opening there was the television the prime minister the chinese ambassador and

a lot of fanfare. but the next day the tax collectors with their huge checking the traders they came almost every day to someone obviously had something against the market many traders felt intimidated and gave up. chinese cheap products were also gradually going out of fashion in romania almost ten thousand chinese retailers left the country often in the direction of poland. more successful is the chinese bicycle manufactured v.h.s. in the city of deva the company employs around three hundred people and has invested over twenty million euros many different models are produced but the big sellers are the electric bikes. the chinese factory manager is satisfied with the location after all wages here are low by european standards.

and we're highly satisfied with our investment which is paying off we have one very good clients in germany and the netherlands. the market for bicycles with electric motors is currently booming so we still see lots of sales opportunities in this market and. the e.u. requires the chinese entrepreneur to buy sixty percent of the bicycle components within the e.u. imports from china would be much cheaper but chinese suppliers fail due to bureaucratic hurdles. the relocation of chinese companies takes far too long there's too much bureaucracy also because the language differences are very large it all takes far too long and is complicated in china setting of a new company goes much quicker. originally one hundred thirty million euros were to be invested in chinatown in bucharest dealer sat at agway has bought

a cheap shop on the premises from the insolvency of state. he no longer imports the bulk of the carrier bags from china but from italy that goes faster and they're more trendy. does your digital assistant speak your mother tongue that's the challenge for many smaller language groups as google and amazon assistance become more common in the household it's also a very relevant issue with many artificial intelligence applications depending on speech recognition now a group of danes is tackling the problem. of have you ever tried talking to siri in a language other than english you might find it has no idea what you're talking about and that's nothing new for many danes you can't manage that one. if it works in english. siri and similar apps and devices might seem all knowing but when it comes to recognizing danish they suddenly are

a bunch of dumb dumbs as the danish minister of health sophie luda demonstrates they're migrating separate it really illustrates our language is a barrier when using artificial intelligence. that's why the danish government is investing in a digital language database costing around four million euros is that it will provide a language standard for danish authorities and public companies can contribute to tomorrow's green solutions better health and the growth of our private companies. the language bank is part of the danish government's national strategy for artificial intelligence maybe then danish won't just sound like jibberish to siri. and that's it for me in the business team i'm stephen beard's in berlin thanks for watching.

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