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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, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Monday May 25 2020, @04:33AM
>Between bluntly demonstrating that all of the reasons for gov. control over the citizens is utterly worthless (terrible mismanagement of an actual emergency)
China demonstrated that government control of citizens absolutely *can* be effective in an emergency. I guess the lesson for the US is that you can't half-ass it; if you can't do it right (and quickly), you might as well just be like Sweden and do nothing at all and let the pandemic take its course, because their results haven't been that much worse than ours. Just a few minutes ago, I saw a headline that the US is now going to restrict travel to Brazil because of Covid. Now? I'm just some guy on the internet and I've noticed on the trackers that Brazil is turning into a major hotspot (now #2 in cases worldwide), and has been for weeks. So *now* they want to shut down travel? Isn't this like closing the barn door after the horse has escaped?
At this point, between how terrible the federal government's handling has been, and how poorly half the citizenry has been dealing with it (having armed protests, refusing to follow safety measures, etc.), I really wonder if we should just throw in the towel and go back to normal, and let the death toll be whatever it'll be. If your society isn't united enough to handle an emergency situation together, then why even bother?