Reports emanating from the UK indicates that Britain’s security chiefs may have given PM Boris Johnson the green light to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to provide Britain’s 5G networks, despite fears that the Chinese government can use Huawei’s technology to spy on other countries.
British tabloid Daily Mail quotes an unnamed senior security source to have disclosed that ‘the balance between national security and the economic benefit to the UK is something we are confident we can manage’.
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This is coming ahead of the convening of UK’s National Security Council by the Prime Minister in the third week of January to make a decision on whether Huawei can be trusted to provide elements of the vital upgrade. Earlier talks had ended with a recommendation that Huawei is excluded from ‘core’ aspects of the British network. However, the firm has been given the nod to supply ‘non-core’ elements such as antennae for high-speed mobile internet. This decision may have been reached following the realization that blocking Huawei’s access to the UK’s 5G network risks leaving Britain behind in the 5G race in the technological dark age.
However, the UK government risks getting into a diplomatic row with the US which has taken a harder line on Huawei and has even advised allies against using Huawei’s 5G technology.
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