On the back of tough US sanctions banning Huawei from using any American intellectual property, Britain's national cyber security centre recommends the Chinese company be totally banned, and its technology stripped from existing parts of the network.
Chinese telecommunications company Huawei faces a complete ban from being used in Britain's mobile phone infrastructure.Britain's national cyber security centre says Huawei technology should be stripped from the networkFrance has stopped short of a total ban on the Chinese telco
In January, Britain's security services gave the green light for Huawei components to be used in one-third of the UK's future 5G mobile network. But now, after tough US sanctions banned the company from using any American intellectual property, Britain's national cyber security centre has recommended Huawei be totally banned, and its technology stripped from existing parts of the network.In a newspaper column, the former head of MI6, John Sawers, warned that British intelligence agencies could no longer guarantee Huawei's technology could be safely used without threat of espionage by Beijing.
Britain's security services had previously given the green light for Huawei components to be used in the future 5G mobile network.
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