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Deadline Missed for Huawei Kit Removal

The Wee Bear

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It's really not in anyone's interest to fine BT for needing longer than three years to completely change their strategy on procurement of hardware for their core and to redo work that had already been done using a different vendor.

Maybe if they'd been ignoring the deadline and doing nothing there would be a case, but it seems like an active programme that is just moving a bit slower than government would like. It would be mad to insist that a 3G network that is within a year of being retired should be migrated to non-Huawei gear, for example.
 
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People need to remember this is a political requirement (UK and US) in my view like 45 minute WMDs.

To expect a company the size of BT that has committed a significant amount of investment to simply change out all equipment of a single brand (not based on the actual security risk of the individual device) in under 3 years (less procurement, manufacture and install as highlighted) was a tall order and unnecessarily costly.

BT should actually be congratulated that if there was a risk it is now very significantly reduced. It has also resulted in a better structured core.

Name any leading brand of network kit destined for Europe and it will invariably be manufactured in or dependent on China (or others like Taiwan which are under threat).

What the Government should be concentrating on is our resilience in a increasingly turbulent world.
 
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