“We are establishing one of the strongest regimes for telecoms security in the world,” he said. Huawei will be banned outright from the “core” of the 5G network, and from operating at sensitive sites such as nuclear and military facilities. It has designated Huawei a “high-risk vendor”, but the company will be given the opportunity to build non-core elements of Britain’s 5G network. An anonymous US official was quoted by Reuters as saying: “There is no safe option for untrusted vendors to control any part of a 5G network. Huawei’s potential role in the UK’s 5G network has been causing controversy for months.

Source: The Guardian January 28, 2020 12:02 UTC