Vodafone, and others, found vulnerabilities in Huawei’s products years ago, but price-point is a powerful blindfold, writes Tim Culpan
Vodafone, and others, found vulnerabilities in Huawei’s products years ago, but price-point is a powerful blindfoldFor more than a decade, executives, intelligence agencies and conspiracy theorists have been warning about the dangers of equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies.
As far back as 2009, Vodafone Group — one of the world’s most powerful and far-reaching telecom companies — found hidden back doors that could have given Huawei access to its fixed-line network in Italy, Bloomberg News’s Daniele Lepido reported pm Tuesday, citing security briefing documents from the London-based company.
That’s supposed to be a comfort, I guess, but it’s not. Vulnerabilities in both routers and the fixed-access network remained, and were found elsewhere in Europe. Vodafone stuck with Huawei because its services were competitively priced, Lepido reported. Having Huawei, or its compatriot ZTE, taken off the tender list reduces operators’ bargaining power even if they lean toward a Western option. That’s among the reasons we’ve seen telecoms executives play down the risks and even defend Huawei. Money is a powerful incentive, and a penny saved is a penny earned.
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