Huawei hits back and blames geopolitics for US drive to stir up 5G security concerns

Huawei, the world’s largest supplier of Telecoms equipment whose SG Technology is international standards, hit back at western worries that its telecoms equipment poses a security threat, attacking the US and its allies for spreading fear and rumours because of “ideological or geopolitical concerns”.

Ken Hu, CEO of Huawei said countries that banned the Chinese Telecom Group, from their telecoms infrastructure would put themselves at a severe dis advantage as the world moves SG, the next generation of mobile internet.

Recently the US has lobbied various countries, including the UK, Germany and Australia, to ban Huawei from their SG networks because of security concerns.

Relations soured further on December 1 when Meng  Wanzhou, Huawei’s CEO and daughter of the company’s founder was arrested in Canada for extradition to the US to face charges over an alleged breach in sanctions against Iran.

Mr HU told a press conference “Despite efforts in some markets to create a fear about Huawei and to use politics to interfere with industry growth, we are proud to say that our customers continue to trust us.”

Most countries’ concerns over 5G security could be resolved through technological discussions, Mr Hue said some countries had tuned those concerns  “into speculation out of ideological and geopolitical concerns.”

Mr Hu revealed Huawei had won 25 commercial 5G contracts and had shipped more than 10, 000, 5G base stations to various countries and forecasts revenues to surpass $100bn in 2018 “a big milestone in our history.”

Huawei was praised last month by Neil McRae, BT’s chief architect for being “ the only 5G supplier right now”.