Darth Vader
From the Dark Side
I don't think that you understand the issue. My understanding and I've been out of the industry for 9 years is that the equipment from Huawei is proprietary and incompatible with that from other manufacturers. Think about the implications. For one the UK would be locked in to Huawei without a simple means of migrating away without a 'big bang' approach.Oh, the UK ignored US protectionism and arbitrary blocking of Chinese tech, because they have looked into the facts, and deemed it not so that magic masts with Chinese tech will (or can) siphon off our data to Dear Leader.
End of the day, Eriksson, Nokia etc. are playing catch up with Huawei, so why go for inferior and likely more expensive tech.
Use HTTPS for sites with sensitive data, VPNs and strong encryption when necessary, job done. Security issues are far deeper than China, and far deeper than 5G infrastructure.
Next 5G is a lot more complex and is designed to support IoT. What this means is that Huawei have the presence to take control over all IoT devices in the UK.
Todays technology is so advanced that in a closed tech environment such as Huawei its easy to embed other intelligence i.e. 'chips' inside existing LSI packages that could monitor and control all sorts of things and we wouldn't know until they were activated and by then it would be too late.
Cheers,
DV