This article is interesting because the current debate about using Huawei's 5G technology or that of Nokia or Ericsson is a red herring. We should be looking at software systems like that of Rakuten. If we split the hardware dependent parts from the rest we can run the rest on commodity servers. This will also mean that we can audit the software to look for backdoors; that will never be easy but a lot easier than prying open the blackbox from Huawei.