BT says it's 'impossible' to remove Huawei from UK's telecoms infrastructure before 2030 The UK government is expected to announce deadlines to stop using the Chinese firm's 5G equipment
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The government is expected to say that no new 5G equipment from the Chinese firm can be installed after 2021, and that all its existing 5G kit must be removed later - possibly by 2025. "If you wanted to have no Huawei in the whole of the telecoms infrastructure across the whole of the UK, I think that's impossible to do in under 10 years."In addition, its Openreach division uses Huawei to provide the"access technology" in its exchanges to provide fibre to the premises broadband - effectively converting electrical signals into light-based ones.
Mr Jansen also repeated a warning first given by his firm last week, saying that"outages would be possible"He added that it would still need to install software provided by Huawei for some time to come."If you don't have those software upgrades, you're running gaps in critical software that could have security implications."Boris Johnson will chair a meeting of the National Security Council on Tuesday, at which a final decision over Huawei will be taken.
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