The National Security Council (NSC) is to look at the conditions of Huawei being involved in the UK’s 5G rollout, a Cabinet minister has confirmed.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has raised doubts over the decision to give Huawei a stake in Britain’s 5G network, telling Beijing that the Government will “think very carefully about how to proceed now”.
British security officials have told UK telecom operators to ensure they have adequate stockpiles of Huawei equipment due to fears that new US sanctions will disrupt the Chinese firm's ability to maintain critical supplies.
The UK government has ditched plans to roll out the NHS contact-tracing app and instead will use a technology based on the system developed by Apple and Google.
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The UK government is holding a review into allowing telecoms companies to make use of the existing network of ducts, pipes and so on, as currently used by the likes of water and energy suppliers.
BlackBerry today announced that its FedRAMP-authorized BlackBerry AtHoc crisis communication system continues to expand on its leading position within the U.S. Federal Government with the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) using BlackBerry AtHoc for secure crisis response.
The UK government has joined the US Covid-19 high performance computing HPC consortium, a consortium of 40 companies and research institutes sharing supercomputing resources to tackle the Covid-19 outbre
China has warned that it will take "necessary measures" to protect Huawei and other Chinese firms after the United States announced new restrictions on the company's purchases of semiconductor technology.
The US government is now barring global chip suppliers that use US technology to stop doing business with Huawei.
Back in March of 2019, BlackBerry set up a completely separate subsidiary in Washington, D.C., to strengthen the company's ties with critical U.S. federal agencies that require highly secure cloud-based services.
Huawei has defended its role in the development of 5G in the UK. In an open letter Huawei's Vice President Victor Zhang stated the company is "focused on keeping Britain connected"
All major network providers in the UK have agreed to implement a set of common measures designed to support and protect customers' access to the internet for the duration of the COViD-19 pandemic.
