I read the report released by UK Defense committee, which is available here: The Security of 5G: “We must not surrender our national security for the sake of short-term technological development” – Committees – UK Parliament

As mentioned by the report in Page 5:

• Additionally, Huawei’s apparent willingness to support China’s intelligence agencies and China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law are further cause for concern. Having a company so closely tied to a state and political organisation sometimes at odds with UK interests should be a point of concern and the decision to remove Huawei from our networks is further supported by these links.

Huawei is operating in China and various other countries. In Each country Huawei is respectively registered as a separate business entity, including in UK. Can the UK registered Huawei company deny any requests from the Govt of UK, be it Intelligence or other agencies? The same applies to China registered Huawei. This argument effectively an “inserted” statement to appease some naked king who is posing as a president of world’s powerful nation.

There is another paragraph which tells a different perspective, on page 5:

• it is important that the West does not succumb to ill-informed anti-China hysteria and recognises the mutual benefits of Chinese involvement in our economy. We recommend that the UK, and allies, should ensure that decisions taken around the involvement of Chinese companies are taken in an evidence-based manner, and only when risk is demonstrable should decisions around removal be made.

Page 6:

• Following its decision to remove Huawei, the Government has faced pressure to remove it more quickly than by 2027. The evidence we have received, however, would suggest that a quicker timescale could result in signal blackouts, delay the 5G rollout significantly and cost both operators and the economy greatly. Therefore, for the time being, we consider the plan for a removal by 2027 to be a sensible decision.

Meanwhile, OpenRAN is being promoted as a the competitor and replacement for Huawei’s 5G. What is OpenRAN or ORAN?

If you read in detail on the article, this D-10 alliance is for creating OpenRAN alliance, like open sourced RedHat Linux in earlier days. The problem with open source is, you cannot point finger on anyone for any misgivings of the software. And interestingly, one can keep all zero-days found unannounced and be used against adversaries. If there is a known manufacturer of a software, a government or company can sue them in the court of law, whereas for a open source software whom will you sue for losses? There is no single body, even if one exists, its a consortium with no responsibility.

Vodaphone has installations based on early versions of OpenRAN in Africa, but it is yet to be known how good is it in comparison with Huawei or Samsung.

If this D-10 alliance is going to start now, how long is it going to develop 5G in OpenRAN? Well, possibly China would be implementing 7G by then. There going to be two parts of the world – developed and deprecated countries. One can guess who are all going to be deprecated countries.

Recent parliament hearing on Huawei as High Risk Vendor (HRV) shows that none of the evidence submissions have claimed or submitted any technical evidence that Huawei has backdoor. All of them are political considerations, fear, uncertainty and doubts. Some of the submissions are very racist in nature, purely political.

Emily Taylor is arguing with ground reality with facts and figures to explain everyone, but there are so many brainwashed MPs are still unable to digest a Chinese Company to dominate a technology area in UK and world. Huawei has given the source code to UK to vet through, and MoD evidence report hasn’t said anything about backdoor or backchannel after years of investigation and vetting of the source code. So, where does the decision to remove and ban Huawei comes from?

US has no alternative for Huawei, but pointing finger at OpenRAN. It’s a sinking ship. By rejecting Huawei, UK is losing its advantage on travelling on information super highway, instead UK is deciding to travel in bullock cart with US. With Brexit still hovering and antagonizing China on HK & Huawei, UK is putting all its eggs on a single basket called US. All the best UK.