Episode micro-network reported on July 10
After the United States, the British supervisory agency has now started firing on Chinese telecom equipment vendors.
From foreign media reports, the agency responsible for supervising and inspecting Huawei's activities warned on Thursday that 'Huawei's flaws in engineering processes have created new risks for the UK communication network'.
It is reported that the UK decided in 2010 to allow Huawei to supply key components to the BT network, but established the Huawei Network Security Assessment Committee to supervise and test Huawei's products.
The Thursday report details the efforts to check whether Huawei products use their claimed software code accurately to ensure that there are no hidden factors that may compromise security. However, the report says that Huawei's processes still do not reach the industry. Good standards', so it is difficult to provide long-term security.
The report pointed out that 'discovering flaws in Huawei's engineering process exposed new risks to the BT network and long-term challenges in mitigating and managing risks.'
Regarding the warning issued by this report, a Huawei spokesperson responded by welcoming the assessment from the UK, 'thanks to these feedbacks and will work to promote the resolution of these issues'. In the official statement, a Huawei spokesperson said that cybersecurity It is Huawei's top priority and will continue to actively improve engineering processes and risk management systems.
The report has now been submitted to the UK National Security Adviser.
In fact, Huawei has invested heavily in the UK in the past few years. At the beginning of this year, Huawei signed a three-year purchase agreement worth £3 billion with the UK government. This latest agreement marks a significant increase in Huawei’s investment in the UK economy. In 2012-2017, Huawei's local investment was about 1.3 billion pounds.
At present, Huawei has established extensive cooperation with many British companies, including serving British Telecom Group (BT) and Vodafone for more than 12 years. Huawei has also established two joint innovation centers in the UK, which are located in Ipswich's Innovation Center in partnership with BT and the Innovation Center in Newbury and Vodafone.
According to IHS Markit's statistics, Huawei ranks first with 28% market share in the network communication equipment market, ranking second with Ericsson 27%, Nokia/Alang 23%, and fourth with ZTE 13%. Five are Samsung's 3%.
Some analysts said that on the surface, this is to take Huawei's equipment security, which is to prevent Huawei and other Chinese telecommunications companies from doing business in the local area. In particular, Huawei has obvious advantages in the 5G field, and Western countries are threatening the Chinese manufacturers. Therefore, we must suppress in various fields.
Previously, the United States blocked or forced Huawei, ZTE and other Chinese communications equipment manufacturers to conduct business in the United States through various administrative decisions. At the beginning of this year, Huawei intends to enter the US market, but ultimately it was forced to give up because of strong pressure from US partners.