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UK reportedly planning to phase out Huawei equipment from its 5G networks
After resisting pressure from the US for months, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is apparently preparing to phase out the use of Huawei equipment from the UK's 5G networks, the Financial Times reported. Citing national security concerns, members of the UK's Conservative party have pushed for Huawei technology to be removed from the UK's 5G infrastructure and the rest of its telecom network by 2023.
[...] Trump reportedly called Johnson earlier this year to discuss the matter, and at least one member of Congress said the US was reconsidering its intelligence partnership with the UK.
Johnson had limited how much Huawei equipment could be used for 5G networks in the UK, banning the use of the company's technology in the most sensitive parts of the network. He said in January that there were not a lot of other options available for the UK's 5G infrastructure, and telecom Vodafone said removing Huawei equipment from its networks would be extremely costly.
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Previously:
U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products
Huawei's Equipment Removed from UK Telecom BT's Network for Emergency Services
EU to Drop Threat of Huawei Ban but Wants 5G Risks Monitored
UK to Toughen Telecoms Security Controls to Shrink 5G Risks
How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network
Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US
Getting Huawei Out of US Networks Requires Gov't Funding, Senators Say
Huawei Fires Back, Points To US' History Of Spying On Phone Networks
TSMC Dumps Huawei
(Score: 3, Funny) by DrkShadow on Sunday May 24 2020, @04:16PM (3 children)
Wait, China left the the Wuhan International Airport open for business?? You could travel to other countries, but you could not travel throughout China?!? wtf?? I never heard about this!!
I heard that reporters couldn't get into China. I heard that Wuhan was so locked down that people were resorting to Tinder to get information from Wuhan. I heard... nothing of what you just claimed! That is astounding, and offensive to the extreme!! How could they do that?!?
That would be like the United States leaving the international border open despite the lead-in-water problem in Flint, MI! Despite the flooding and contamination along the Mississippi in the last couple years!
Or wait -- are you suggesting that for a localized incident with no known effects outside the given area that countries should lock down international borders immediately? and that this applies only to China? I'm confused.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2020, @06:42PM (1 child)
The issue is that the CCP thought the issue serious enough to protect themselves, but not protect others. This thing doubles every three to five days unchecked. This virus followed that pattern since mid november, giving something like 50k cases at a minimum in Wuhan alone when they closed down domestic flights from Wuhan. Important enough for China to close their most important inland transportation route to other Chinese locations, yet not enough for them to worry about international travel.
Flint example would be the same if every person leaving flint would kick off three to five day doubling of lead poisioning anywhere they went, and if the US knew this so they refused to allow people from Flint to travel to NY or Texas but thought it was a-ok if they still traveled to London.
German intelligence said they have evidence China told the WHO in the same timeframe to push that the virus did not have human-to-human transmission, yet other documents they gave to the WHO showed they knew about h2h transmission in December.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday May 24 2020, @11:23PM
I don't quite get it. Are you saying you'd like to be protected by the CCP?
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @05:00PM
Ah yes I too remember the great Leaded Water Warning Agreement (LWWA) in 1985 that required the US to inform signatory countries of situations where communities had too high of concentrations of lead in their water.