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Australian Gov't Bans Huawei From National Network Bids

Posted by timothy on from the drive-a-hard-bargain dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like paranoia regarding Chinese cyber-espionage is riding sky-high within the Australian Government. It was confirmed today that the country's Attorney-General's Department had banned Chinese networking vendor Huawei (the number two telco networking equipment vendor globally) from bidding for work supplying equipment to the government's $50 billion National Broadband Network universal fibre project. The unprecedented move comes despite Huawei offering to share its source code with security officials, and despite Huawei not being accused of breaking any laws in Australia. Questions over the legality of the Government's move are already being raised."

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  1. Are the concerns valid? by AtomicSymphonic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think Huawei was also left out of consideration when AT&T and Verizon were looking to build more LTE towers in the US. Or was that the federal government didn't want their equipment out of this fear?

    Would love if someone clarified this.

  2. Re:national security by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OTOH I know a lot of private companies that have banned huawei. I seriously doubt at this point that this is a coincidence.

    Personally I think they've been caught red-handed in a high-profile network about 2 years ago and the big guys employ people who know the details about this.