Britain bans China's Huawei from its 5G network LONDON: Huawei will be completely removed from the UK's 5G networks by the end of 2027, the UK government announced on Tuesday after a review by the country's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on the impact of US sanctions against the Chinese telecommunications giant. In the lead up to this complete removal of all Huawei kit from UK networks, there will be a total ban on the purchase of any new 5G kit after December 31, 2020. The decision was taken at a meeting of the UK's National Security Council (NSC) chaired by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in response to new US sanctions against the telecom major imposed in May which removed the firm's access to products which have been built based on US semiconductor technology. “5G will be transformative for our country, but only if we have confidence in the security and resilience of the infrastructure it is built upon,” said Oliver Dowden , UK Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). “Following US sanctions against Huawei and updated technical advice from our cyber experts, the government has decided it necessary to ban Huawei from our 5G networks. No new kit is to be added from January 2021, and UK 5G networks will be Huawei free by the end of 2027. This decisive move provides the industry with the clarity and certainty it needs to get on with delivering 5G across the UK,” he said. The minister, who laid out the details of the UK's ban on Huawei in the House of Commons, said the government will now seek to legislate with a new Telecoms Security Bill to put in place the powers necessary to implement the “tough new” telecoms security framework. “By the time of the next election (2024) we will have implemented in law an irreversible path for the complete removal of Huawei equipment from our 5G networks,” said Dowden. The new law will give the government the national security powers to impose these new controls on “high risk vendors” and create extensive security duties on network operators to drive up standards, DCMS said. Technical experts at the NCSC reviewed the consequences of the US sanctions and concluded that Huawei will need to do a major reconfiguration of its supply chain as it will no longer have access to the technology on which it currently relies and there are no alternatives which we have sufficient confidence in. They found the new restrictions make it impossible to continue to guarantee the security of Huawei equipment in the future. After a ban on the purchase of new Huawei kit for 5G from next year, the aim is to completely remove the Chinese vendor's influence on 5G networks across the UK by the end of 2027. The DCMS said Tuesday's decision takes into account the UK's specific national circumstances and how the risks from these sanctions are manifested in the country. The existing restrictions on Huawei in sensitive and critical parts of the network remain in place, it highlighted. The DCMS said the US action also affects Huawei products used in the UK's full fibre broadband networks. However, the UK has managed Huawei's presence in the UK's fixed access networks since 2005 and we also need to avoid a situation where broadband operators are reliant on a single supplier for their equipment. As a result, following security advice from experts, DCMS is advising full fibre operators to transition away from purchasing new Huawei equipment. A technical consultation will determine the transition timetable, but it is expect this period to last no longer than two years. The government said its new approach strikes the right balance by recognising full fibre's established presence and supporting the connections that the public relies on, while fully addressing the security concerns. It stressed that its new policy in relation to high risk vendors has not been designed around “one company, one country or one threat” but as an “enduring and flexible policy” that will enable the UK to manage the risks to the network, now and in the future. Expressing disappointment over UK's decision to ban it from 5G networks, Huawei in a statement issued in Beijing said, "This disappointing decision is bad news for anyone in the UK with a mobile phone. It threatens to move Britain into the digital slow lane, push up bills and deepen the digital divide." "Instead of 'levelling up', the government is levelling down and we urge them to reconsider. We remain confident that the new US restrictions would not have affected the resilience or security of the products we supply to the UK," it said. The company said its future in the UK has become "politicised". "This is about US trade policy and not security. Over the past 20 years, Huawei has focused on building a better-connected UK. As a responsible business, we will continue to support our customers as we have always done," the statement said. "We will conduct a detailed review of what today's announcement means for our business here and will work with the UK government to explain how we can continue to contribute to a better-connected Britain," it said. According to analysts in Beijing, the UK's decision came as a shock for Huawei, which was hoping that Britain would not be influenced by the US global campaign to ban it. But the Chinese government's decision to go ahead with the implementation of its controversial national security law in the former British colony Hong Kong fuelled resentment against Beijing in the UK and prompted Prime Minister Boris Johnson to opt against Huawei, they opined.

America 50-2 china

Soon, there will be Nations that will stand with US, and the rest with China. The Communist government in China is affecting individual businesses from that nation. Huawei, tiktok next.
My signature is saying something

Some people will come with long epistle on how china will survive without the west lols, people who made china an economic power are gradually dismantling the economy lols las las china go dey alright.

China has a very expansive ideology and they believe they are a superior race.

In Nigeria, China has probably bought your village from the government.

The news won't tell you this, you won't hear about china towns, or the occupancy of your significant places, you won't see it in the budget, it won't show you if China has forced a loan down Nigeria's throat, and used the whole of Nigeria as collateral, or that we pay rent to China, for our president to live in Aso Rock as tenant.

Soon, Chinese language will become our official language. learn it, for soon China businesses will be the only employer of labor, they will eliminate local competition... they have more resources than you, and you or your son will work for an illiterate Chinese man. It has started.

the mafia always stands for their BOSS... follow follow UK donkeys!

Every country that knows what they are doing will always be wary of China's Trojan horse devices.

Ok

This war has began

Increasing aggression of China cannot be ignored. China is turning its back on international law. It seems only a matter of time before China uses its Armed Forces in a calculated act of aggression to further its policy of expansion. It is acting in violation of UNs Law of the Sea. It has ignored and rejected the ruling of the International Court of Arbitration in the Hague, that China has no claim on Filipino waters and atolls. It killed Indian soldiers in a premeditated act. The seriousness of the situation should not be ignored. The situation is very similar to the Sudetenland and Appeasement. Soon the West will be faced with the same decision on what to do.

Before AFRICA wakes us. we will be China's extended territory. 80 percent of everything used in Nigeria from abroad is from China.

They have a plan

Built2last:
This war has began

Increasing aggression of China cannot be ignored. China is turning its back on international law. It seems only a matter of time before China uses its Armed Forces in a calculated act of aggression to further its policy of expansion. It is acting in violation of UNs Law of the Sea. It has ignored and rejected the ruling of the International Court of Arbitration in the Hague, that China has no claim on Filipino waters and atolls. It killed Indian soldiers in a premeditated act. The seriousness of the situation should not be ignored. The situation is very similar to the Sudetenland and Appeasement. Soon the West will be faced with the same decision on what to do.

Before AFRICA wakes us. we will be China's extended territory. 80 percent of everything used in Nigeria from abroad is from China.

They have a plan

the US has been doing the same and worse all over the globe, yet i dont see the UK banning US products, do they? let us all stop being hypocrites.

btw the UK didnt ban Huawei... they just limited to 35% its access to their 5G network construction:
Prime Minister Johnson admitted the firm was a "high risk vendor" but allowed have some access to the UK's 5G network after being told by the UK's security agencies that they could manage the risk posed by Huawei.

there are Chinatowns ALL OVER THE WORLD, not just Africa, but if in doubt, go check NY, LA, SF, Paris, Sydney... and if you think Chinese are only buying Africa, then you dont know much about the world. Chinese are EVERYWHERE, whether we like it or no. and there is not much anyone can do about it.

othermen:
China has a very expansive ideology and they believe they are a superior race.

In Nigeria, China has probably bought your village from the government.

The news won't tell you this, you won't hear about china towns, or the occupancy of your significant places, you won't see it in the budget, it won't show you if China has forced a loan down Nigeria's throat, and used the whole of Nigeria as collateral, or that we pay rent to China, for our president to live in Aso Rock as tenant.

Soon, Chinese language will become our official language. learn it, for soon China businesses will be the only employer of labor, they will eliminate local competition... they have more resources than you, and you or your son will work for an illiterate Chinese man. It has started.

Are you writing in your native tongue?

othermen:
China has a very expansive ideology and they believe they are a superior race.

In Nigeria, China has probably bought your village from the government.

The news won't tell you this, you won't hear about china towns, or the occupancy of your significant places, you won't see it in the budget, it won't show you if China has forced a loan down Nigeria's throat, and used the whole of Nigeria as collateral, or that we pay rent to China, for our president to live in Aso Rock as tenant.

Soon, Chinese language will become our official language. learn it, for soon China businesses will be the only employer of labor, they will eliminate local competition... they have more resources than you, and you or your son will work for an illiterate Chinese man. It has started.

you know howfa.. I know of one community in the Eastern zone that Chinese guys have taken over... Asin I don't even know how they managed to get the hectares of land they're using, the funny thing is that the govt of that local area are even supporting them..

othermen:
China has a very expansive ideology and they believe they are a superior race.

In Nigeria, China has probably bought your village from the government.

The news won't tell you this, you won't hear about china towns, or the occupancy of your significant places, you won't see it in the budget, it won't show you if China has forced a loan down Nigeria's throat, and used the whole of Nigeria as collateral, or that we pay rent to China, for our president to live in Aso Rock as tenant.

Soon, Chinese language will become our official language. learn it, for soon China businesses will be the only employer of labor, they will eliminate local competition... they have more resources than you, and you or your son will work for an illiterate Chinese man. It has started.

yawwwnnn.
u just explained to us what the US has been doing to us for years.
just that they now have competition from China at a cheaper rate.

China again

I forsee an influx of london used huawei fones in nigeria

Water is wet.

Good, this is 100 good for UK and for the rest of the world

MrBrownJay1:


the US has been doing the same and worse all over the globe, yet i dont see the UK banning US products, do they? let us all stop being hypocrites.

btw the UK didnt ban Huawei... they just limited to 35% its access to their 5G network construction:
Prime Minister Johnson admitted the firm was a "high risk vendor" but allowed have some access to the UK's 5G network after being told by the UK's security agencies that they could manage the risk posed by Huawei.

there are Chinatowns ALL OVER THE WORLD, not just Africa, but if in doubt, go check NY, LA, SF, Paris, Sydney... and if you think Chinese are only buying Africa, then you dont know much about the world. Chinese are EVERYWHERE, whether we like it or no. and there is not much anyone can do about it.

You are right, personally i avoid buying chinese goods and i want all reasonable people to do the same

Maple51:
UK has always been an overseas arm of US they no dey ever fight. Let Russia accept Huawei technology

this is uk's attempt to get back at China for the new law in honk Kong... It's uk's loss really because over a thousand of them will lose their job

paltielx:
You are right, personally i avoid buying chinese goods and i want all reasonable people to do the same

to be safe you should also stop buying american, isreali , Germany , British , Indian , stick to Nokia and finish product

Ghengiskhan:
to be safe you should also stop buying american, isreali , Germany , British , Indian , stick to Nokia and finish product

may i know why

paltielx:
may i know why

because they develop, buy and install third party app on your device to get info about you.

paltielx:
You are right, personally i avoid buying chinese goods and i want all reasonable people to do the same

you don't want to buy Chinese goods but you are using Facebook, Google and whatsapp. Assuming you are a top secret national agent. it won't take time for the American government to track you and access your data

From the comment here, most people are ignorant and still suffering from mental slavery. China accused of spying, but usa of all nation regarded as a saint. How did fbi catch Woodberry, it was through his iPhone, whatsapp and iCloud drive. So far your using the internet, you are being monitored.

paltielx:
You are right, personally i avoid buying chinese goods and i want all reasonable people to do the same

why bro? so that people can now go and buy US goods that are 5 times more expensive?! no matter how people want to look at China, thanks to China, Africa is going forward (small-small). what Africa needs is to go forward without the help of ANYBODY... but thinking that US is better than China will have you mistaking on this issue, time and time again.

MrBrownJay1:


why bro? so that people can now go and buy US goods that are 5 times more expensive?! no matter how people want to look at China, thanks to China, Africa is going forward (small-small). what Africa needs is to go forward without the help of ANYBODY... but thinking that US is better than China will have you mistaking on this issue, time and time again.

Us is far better than China bros abeg

Karex81:

you don't want to buy Chinese goods but you are using Facebook, Google and whatsapp. Assuming you are a top secret national agent. it won't take time for the American government to track you and access your data

Tiktok has proven how Chinese are spying on other nations

Ghengiskhan:
because they develop, buy and install third party app on your device to get info about you.

very few of their companies does that, but recent discovery reveals that Chinese leads in such espionage acts

paltielx:
Tiktok has proven how Chinese are spying on other nations

So facebook don't spy on you

paltielx:
very few of their companies does that, but recent discovery reveals that Chinese leads in such espionage acts

there's no proof provided, bring proof all this things is a trade war. The western media has manipulated you guys, china has risen and usa is afraid it might take over. There's a reason why US dollars is the universal currency

Karex81:

So facebook don't spy on YouTube

Any evidence? Was face included in the recent apps that copies our clipboard data?