UK Has a Plan to Corral Huawei. But Security Concerns Linger

UK Has a Plan to Corral Huawei. But Security Concerns Linger

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https://www.wired.com/story/uk-corral-huawei-security-concerns-linger/

The UK government ruled Tuesday that Chinese telecom giant won’t be banned outright from selling equipment for mobile 5G networks there, though it will face severe limits. The question is: Will the restrictions provide the security protections that policymakers want?

The decision is the latest in a series of partial successes for Huawei in the face of ever-increasing pressure from the US government to block the company from mobile networks around the world. Washington effectively bans carriers from using the company’s equipment in US networks and has long warned that Huawei could build backdoors into its products that could be accessed by the Chinese government, something the company denies it has done or would do.

UK Has a Plan to Corral Huawei. But Security Concerns Linger

Jan 29, 2020, 5:14am UTC
https://www.wired.com/story/uk-corral-huawei-security-concerns-linger/ > The UK government ruled Tuesday that Chinese telecom giant won’t be banned outright from selling equipment for mobile 5G networks there, though it will face severe limits. The question is: Will the restrictions provide the security protections that policymakers want? > The decision is the latest in a series of partial successes for Huawei in the face of ever-increasing pressure from the US government to block the company from mobile networks around the world. Washington effectively bans carriers from using the company’s equipment in US networks and has long warned that Huawei could build backdoors into its products that could be accessed by the Chinese government, something the company denies it has done or would do.