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Doubts over Huawei's participation in India's 5G roll out deepens
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SME Times News Bureau | 11 Jul, 2019
Despite its willingness to sign a "no backdoor" policy with India,
doubts over Huawei's participation in India's 5G roll out process
deepened after a member of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB)
flagged security as the primary concern during the roll out of the fifth
generation cellular network.
With 20 per cent of all 5G patents
in the world, Huawei has grabbed 50 commercial 5G contracts globally.
But it came under the scanner due to allegations of spying on behalf of
the Chinese government.
"When it comes to security, we cannot
take any chances," said NSAB member V. Kamakoti, without naming Huawei
during a discussion on 5G in India at the Indian Council of World
Affairs here on Wednesday.
Kamakoti, who is also a professor at
the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, pushed for
indigenisation of technology to make the country secure in the 5G era.
However,
during a question and answer session following his talk, officials from
the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, who were present at the event,
pointed out that nobody has offered "concrete evidence" against Huawei.
"Risk
is a risk whether it comes from A or B," Kamakoti said, while adding
that in case there remains a vulnerability in the hardware or software,
it could be exploited by anybody.
"Huawei holds some of the very
interesting patents around 5G. They have some leadership. We cannot
undermine that," the NSAB member said, even as he agreed that concrete
evidence against Huawei was lacking.
Huawei India Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) Jay Chen told IANS in June that the company was willing
to sign a "no backdoor" agreement to ensure that its equipment could not
be used for malicious purposes.
But China's National
Intelligence Law from 2017 basically requires organisations to give
access to any data when demanded, according to Kamakoti.
"They
may be right from their perspective of national security. But that
recent law could be one of the reasons why people across the world are
raising concerns about the security of Chinese equipment," he said.
But this is not the first time that security concerns about Huawei's participation in India's 5G roll out was raised.
In
June, India's Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that India has
its security concerns over allowing Huawei to participate in the 5G
network trial for 5G services.
The government has already formed a panel to decide whether to allow Huawei to participate in the 5G trials in the country.
Spectrum
for 5G is likely to be auctioned in October and the 5G High Level Forum
envisages the technology to be deployed in the country by 2020.
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