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UK will allow Huawei to supply 5G - with 'tight restrictions'
The UK government will allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to play a limited role in supplying the country's 5G networks, it has been announced today.
The government said the package of restrictions being announced on "high risk" 5G vendors will allow it to "mitigate the potential risk posed by the supply chain and to combat the range of threats, whether cyber criminals, or state sponsored attacks".
The plan for managing risks related to the next generation of cellular network technology ends months of uncertainty over the issue - which has seen warnings that the delay is harming the UK's competitiveness and its relations abroad.
Commenting on the decision in a statement, digital secretary Baroness Morgan said: "The government has reviewed the supply chain for telecoms networks and concluded today it is necessary to have tight restrictions on the presence of high risk vendors.
"This is a UK-specific solution for UK-specific reasons and the decision deals with the challenges we face right now. It not only paves the way for secure and resilient networks, with our sovereignty over data protected, but it also builds on our strategy to develop a diversity of suppliers."
The decision not to bar Huawei from upgrades to domestic networks signals a failure of U.S. diplomacy at the highest level.
In recent days American has been applying top-level pressure to its European ally - with secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, tweeting Sunday night that the country faced a "momentus" decision. "The truth is that only nations able to protect their data will be sovereign," he wrote.
President Trump has also made his preference for US allies to ban Huawei amply clear in public.
While the decision by UK
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