UK Set To Allow Huawei in 'Non-Contentious' Parts of 5G Networks

"This could antagonize the U.S.," reports Engadget: After months of talk, the UK is reportedly close to letting Huawei into its 5G networks. Sunday Times sources claim Prime Minister Boris Johnson is close to allowing the Chinese tech giant into "non-contentious" parts of 5G service in the country. While there wasn't much elaboration on what that meant, past reports suggested these would be areas where the potential damage from Chinese surveillance (if any) would be limited.

Earlier leaks suggested that all four of the UK's largest carriers (EE, O2, Three and Vodafone) were using Huawei gear in their 5G networks. While they're aware of concerns that China might task Huawei with using equipment to spy on UK targets, they may also have strong business incentives to adopt Huawei gear. It could help them build more heterogeneous networks that are less likely to fail outright, and force telecom giants like Ericsson and Nokia to offer more competitive pricing.

Trade deal

[Mr_Silver]

"This could antagonize the U.S.," reports Engadget:

I wouldn't be surprised if this idea gets killed off pretty quickly - especially given that, post Brexit, the UK will be desperate for a trade deal with the US.

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[quenda]

They probably will want a trade deal with the US, but will they want it more or less than one with China?

US trade deal is much more important. China as export market is a distant third after EU and US, taking only 5.7% of UK exports in 2018, slightly more than Switzerland.
http://www.worldstopexports.co... [worldstopexports.com]

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[captbollocks]

Encrypting the shit out of it is not enough. As Ed Snowden said, no one is interested in the content of phone calls and emails just the meta data which is way more interesting.

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[Alain Williams]

All this Huawei nonsense, is because the US intelligence community will no longer be able to snoop on networks like they once were able to.

It is also part of Trump's trade war with China & he did not want a Chinese tech company beating the pants of Cisco & similar.

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[Jerry Atrick]

If brexit happens the way the brexiteers are planning, Congress will veto a US trade deal anyway. So not much point worrying about the Huawei issue.

Or with keeping up with the US and it's notoriously half-assed mobile efforts.

Business as usual

[Viol8]

Or rather , the UK government bends over yet again in the face of business pressure. Though its not just this government, plenty of past ones both tory, coalition and labour are guilty of it.

Frankly you'd be hard pressed to find a working bollock in the whole of the Commons at the moment.

Part of a long process

[jbmartin6]

The UK government has a long partnership to vet the security of Huawei products and coding practices with direct and high level cooperation from Huawei [www.gov.uk]. TLDR; they never found any sign of any deliberate backdoor or other tomfoolery, unless you count using telnet on some products. But a lot of poor practices, no surprise. IN other words, TFS isn't a surprise or abrupt change of direction.

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[LenKagetsu]

Leaving your key under the doormat is a poor practice, and is just as bad as leaving it nailed to your door.

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[Kreplock]

You mean... Huawei didn't find any wrongdoing by Huawei?

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POTUS Won't like that

[RotateLeftByte]

He'll be on the phone to his fellow New Yorker and making sure that if this happens the import extra duty on Scotch will go up to 50%. Brump won't like being snubbed like this one little bit.