After the United States banned Huawei from doing business with any of the US-based firms and using their technology citing national security, US soon started lobbying its allies to follow the suit in banning the company.
However, as per the letter from UK Parliament member and Science and Technology Committee chairman Norman Lamb, the Chinese giant Huawei won’t be banned in the United Kingdom. The Parliament Committee thus rejected the proposed British ban on Huawei, its products, and services.
Concluding the research, Norman Lamb wrote in his letter: “Overall, my Committee concludes that — subject to restrictions on access to highly sensitive elements of the relevant networks; continued close scrutiny; and satisfactory improvements in Huawei’s cybersecurity in response to the Huawei Cyber Security Centre’s Oversight Board — there are no technical grounds for excluding Huawei entirely from the UK’s 5G or other telecommunications networks.”
However, the letter does add that the company is to be restricted from having “access to highly sensitive elements of the relevant networks,” which means that the UK’s Science and Technology Committee chair still doesn’t trust the Chinese company when it comes to sensitive information.
The letter further adds that banning Huawei from 5G network rollouts will do nothing to stop the Chinese influence given that multiple vendors make their products in China. To ban Huawei wouldn’t be enough to get rid of the perceived “threat” as one would have to get rid of every Chinese corporation.
The response from the UK regarding the call from the United States for banning Huawei in the next-generation telecom network technology is in line with other countries like Germany which has said it wouldn’t ban Huawei from its 5G network rollout simply because it is a Chinese corporation.
While the United States is working hard to convince its allies to keep Huawei out of 5G network rollouts globally, the Chinese telecom giant is actively signing up global customers for 5G network deployment, with ten new clients since March 2019. The company claims that more than half of Huawei’s 50 commercial 5G contracts are with European carriers, with the rest being American carriers such as Verizon Wireless.
Earlier this month, Monaco launched the next-generation 5G mobile network technology and with that, it became the first country in Europe to launch the 5G network based on the technology supplied from China-based Huawei.
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