Telecoms giants in the U.K. could face fines of up to £100,000 a day, should they fail to meet targets for higher security requirements which are aimed at phasing out Huawei equipment from the country's 5G network.
The U.K. government also banned mobile providers from buying new Huawei 5G equipment after December 31. U.K. Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden said the benefits of 5G and fiber networks could only be realized if they were secure.He said:"This groundbreaking bill will give the U.K. one of the toughest telecoms security regimes in the world and allow us to take the action necessary to protect our networks.
There has been no measures from the government, at least in public, about Huawei's involvement in 4G. It has made experts wonder about the reasons behind this"security" measure."This is about American pressure and about the fact that there's a shifting perception of China as a result of a number of factors," This is not something that is just, this is something that has been building in Washington and elsewhere for a while.
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