Telecoms Diversification Task Force urges UK government to give smaller hardware vendors a bigger slice of the 5G pie

Smaller telco kit makers should provide 25 per cent of the equipment used in Britain's 5G networks following the removal of Huawei, according to the recently formed UK.gov-backed Telecoms Diversification Task Force. The Task Force's report, seen by the Financial Times, also urged the UK government and its Western allies to …

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"Smaller telco kit makers should provide 25 per cent"... "If this 25 per cent suggestion becomes law, it could give room for other smaller traditional (non-OpenRAN) vendors to grow in the UK market. Samsung, for example"

Just because they are not in the UK doesn't mean they are small, what would be the point of replacing one huge monolith with another?

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Security costs

Isn't it going to expensive to investigate dozens of small companies for their links to foreigners and subject their hardware and software to the decade long detailed level of security analysis applied to Huawei ?

Or will there be enough small suppliers with a former cabinet minister on the board to allow them to skip this ?

[katrinab]

Re: Security costs

Or sister of current cabinet minister on the board.

See for example an NHS document shredding contract given to Matt Hancock's sister.

[Trigonoceps occipitalis]

Re: Security costs

I'm sure the small company route to success is to hire The Queen of Carnage?

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Security costs

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