UK defense committee to probe security of 5G network on Huawei concerns

Britain's parliamentary defense committee will investigate the security of ...

FILE PHOTO: A smartphone with the Huawei and 5G network logo is seen on a PC motherboard in this illustration picture taken January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

In January, Prime Minister Boris Johnson decided to grant Huawei a limited role in Britain’s 5G mobile network, frustrating a global bid by the United States to exclude the firm from the West’s next-generation communications systems. Lawmaker Tobias Ellwood, launching the inquiry, said that once 5G was introduced it will be an “unextractable” part of British infrastructure.

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