EU push to rip and replace Huawei 5G meets resistance

Asia Times ^

[FarCenter]

EU Commissioner Thierry Breton wants Germany and other European countries to stop dragging their feet and eliminate Chinese equipment from their 5G telecom networks. The European telecom industry and Huawei are pushing back.

In a June 15 press conference, Breton cited European Union guidelines that ask member countries to evaluate “high risk vendors,” adding, “To date, only 10 of them have used these prerogatives to restrict or exclude high risk vendors. This is too slow, and it poses a major security risk and exposes the Union’s collective security, since it creates a major dependency for the EU and serious vulnerabilities.”

“We cannot afford to maintain critical dependencies that could become a weapon against our interests,” he emphasized.

Commissioner Thierry Breton wants Europe to move faster in purging Huawei from their 5G networks. Image: Twitter Deutsche Telekom quickly rejected claims that mobile networks built by China’s Huawei could be altered remotely to cause damage or steal data. In a June 16 statement to the German news site golem.de, a spokesman for the German telecom provider declared, “No [software] update can be introduced into the live system that was not fully tested for functionality and security.”

“The network management systems are located in a high-security network that is completely separated from the Internet and from the company’s office communications network,” said Deutsche Telekom executive Stephan Broszio, according to press reports. “Access to this network is granted only to a few employees subject to strict security review. A remote attack by the producer firm [namely Huawei] is not possible.”

Meanwhile, Austria’s chief telecommunications regulator, Klaus Steinmauer, told the Austrian News Agency that he “saw no danger from Huawei,” adding, “I don’t know of a single instance” of problems.

[Dr. Sivana]

“I don’t know of a single instance” of problems.

They expect to find Boris and Natasha in the closet with headphones? Spyware tries very hard not to give itself away.

[Organic Panic]

Why not play by commie rules. I think it was Kruschev who said the capitalists will buy the rope with which they are hung. Well hells bells. Let’s buy their technology and use it against them...

Of course that would require anti-commies who love western capitalist culture.

[Vinnie]

Another Pres. Trump warned about and was poo-pooed out of hand .

[ClearCase_guy]

“The network management systems are located in a high-security network that is completely separated from the Internet and from the company’s office communications network,” said Deutsche Telekom executive Stephan Broszio, according to press reports. “Access to this network is granted only to a few employees subject to strict security review. A remote attack by the producer firm [namely Huawei] is not possible.”

Sounds about as secure as the Dominion Voting System.