According to Global Network , after a long period of consideration, London, UK finally made a decision to temporarily postpone the relevant regulations on restricting the use of Huawei devices in the UK network system. According to the British Telecom Group, if the relevant decision cannot be postponed and the deadline is insisted on implementing it according to the deadline, the UK may face a large-scale network outage. This time, British telecommunications companies bowed their heads to Huawei and restarted cooperation, which was actually a forced move. On the one hand, they were worried that there was no internet available, and on the other hand, it was because the UK was already behind in 5G, and many African countries had faster 5G than the UK.
According to the specific content of the relevant reports, the UK's Ministry of Digital, Culture, Media and Sports, which is directly responsible for the UK's Internet-related business, released a work report to the public. The report talks about the current actual situation of the UK's Internet broadband network and decides to restrict the use of Huawei network equipment in the core network tasks. It is temporarily scheduled to take effect in December 2023, rather than January 2023. This covers Huawei's equipment involved in managing sensitive data and tasks, as well as related equipment for security and control functions. Previously, the UK believed that using Huawei equipment in these areas would make the UK "unsafe".
In addition to continuing to use Huawei equipment, the UK's Ministry of Digital, Culture, Media and Sports believes that the restrictions on the use limit of Huawei equipment in optical fiber were previously issued by London on the use limit of Huawei equipment access to , that is, Huawei's share of all optical fiber access networks in the UK is limited to less than 35%. The restrictions were originally scheduled to take effect in July 2023, and are now adjusted to October 2023. But it is worth noting that although the UK has adjusted its timeline, they have not adjusted their final plan, that is, London believes that Huawei equipment will be completely removed from the UK 5G network by 2027 at the latest and will no longer use any equipment related to Huawei.
The outside world believes that the decision to postpone the UK side is likely to be related to the relatively lagging development of in the 5G communication device in the UK. Since the 21st century is the information age and the value of information is much higher than any historical period in the past, major countries are working hard to achieve complete autonomy of communication equipment and are worried about leaking information. However, the UK started relatively late in 5G technology and lags far behind China and the United States. Therefore, it is very difficult for the UK to start a new business in the short term. Seeing that it will not be able to use British equipment next year, it has to postpone it again to avoid large-scale network disconnection in China by then, which will become a joke from the international community.
In fact, the UK's gradually reducing cooperation with Huawei is inseparable from the pressure from the United States. In 2020, the United States took a series of restrictions on Huawei. In addition to requiring global chip manufacturers to ban the provision of Kirin chip to Huawei, it also requires other countries, especially European allies, to ban the use of Huawei communication equipment. The ban covers a wide range of areas, including all telecommunications suppliers that have cooperative relationships with Huawei, as well as telecommunications groups, and British Telecom is also among them.
In this regard, the UK also cooperated with the US's requirements and wrote the content against Huawei into the communications field laws, requiring British Telecom, Vodafone and 3 UK to stop cooperation with Huawei, find other partners, and gradually remove Huawei equipment from the UK network system according to the plan. The UK knows that banning Huawei 5G devices has nothing to do with national security, and the British intelligence and security departments have also repeatedly guaranteed that using Huawei services will not bring any risks. British officials have also publicly disclosed that they do not cooperate with Huawei just because "the United States told us that we should do this."
In fact, this is obviously not a matter of removing it, because looking at the world, Huawei is the only one that can truly achieve a higher technical level in the 5G field. Other companies such as Ericsson have a gap with Huawei. Obviously, the UK regrets it now.Compared with the large-scale network outages that may be encountered in China and the possibility of losing its leading position in the development of 5G, the UK no longer blindly obeys the United States' hegemony . In order not to affect its own core interests, the UK has begun to seek self-protection, and in cooperation with China, it has begun to blatantly violate the will of the United States.
Europe is currently facing multiple unstable factors such as political instability, energy crisis, , inflation , and inflation . Obviously, the United States’ commitment to Europe is just a big cake, and has not improved in addition to aggravating the crisis. In order to get out of the predicament as soon as possible, Britain and Germany have begun to take the lead and show goodwill to China frequently. The United States attempts to establish a restrictive alliance against China in the world, and has begun to "leak the wind" in Europe. The major change in Britain's attitude towards Huawei means that the United States has once again suffered setbacks by relying on the hegemony policy to suppress China, and the United States will also pay the price for its rampant behavior.
