A committee of MPs and peers is considering an inquiry into the Chinese telecoms equipment vendor Huawei following a call by US legislators to stop the company doing business in America. A decision to curb Huawei’s activities in Britain could delay major infrastructure projects including the building of the country’s new 4G mobile phone networks and BT’s national fibre broadband lines, experts warned.
Whitehall sources indicated that the all-parliamentary intelligence and security committee had looked at security concerns over Huawei two years ago, and are likely to revive their interest in light of this week’s House of Representatives report. This said regulators should block Huawei and its Chinese rival ZTE from mergers and acquisitions, and US firms should not do business with them.
There is continuing government anxiety about the scale of China‘s activity in cyberspace, both in terms of theft of intellectual property and espionage.
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