BT: 'Because of the existing underlying supply of the 4G equipment, most of our 5G (NSA) so far is with Huawei'
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/07/29/vodafone_bt_execs_huawei/
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Scott Petty, chief technology officer of Vodafone, described the existing 5G NSA (non-standalone) deployments as "inextricably linked" to the underlying legacy networks like 4G, 3G, and 2G.
"As we deploy our 5G base stations, we will have to swap our Huawei 4G base stations to an alternate vendor. That creates both disruption in our network and incremental costs for us in our 5G deployment plans," he said.
"We are happy with [2]the decision on 2027 as it gives us time to swap without major disruption to our networks and enables us to develop the OpenRAN ecosystem."
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Also providing testimony was BT's CTIO, Howard Watson, who said the former state-owned telecommunication firm "welcomed the clarity" and the 2027 deadline, which it said would allow the firm to keep to the £500m budget it allocated in early January to replace existing Huawei 5G RAN components.
Huawei-made equipment currently powers two-thirds of BT and EE's existing 4G edge network, with the controversial Chinese firm also powering the core. Watson told the sub-committee the firm is [4]actively in the process of removing Huawei-made core components .
BT is similarly exposed to Huawei in its 5G network. "Because it's the non-standalone I described earlier, it runs off that existing 4G core. Likewise, because of the existing underlying supply of the 4G equipment, most of our 5G so far is with Huawei, although we also have Nokia," he added.
In order to meet guidelines established by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in January, following its 18-month supply chain review, BT will have to reduce that number to [5]35 per cent by 2023 , with Huawei's complete excision planned for 2027. Watson noted that much of this "high risk" equipment is located in urban areas.
Vodafone is likely to face fewer headaches, with Huawei-made components accounting for one-third of its [6]SingleRAN kit. The remainder is provided by Ericsson. Its core network consists of components from several vendors, including Ericsson, Cisco, and Nokia. ®
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[1] https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/08ba883a-9864-4f0a-8557-33f091a0f8cd
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/14/huawei_ban_uk/
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2019/05/22/ee_5g_rollout/
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2018/12/05/bt_huawei_ee_5g/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/28/uk_says_yes_to_limited_huawei_non_core/
[6] https://support.huawei.com/huaweiconnect/carrier/en/thread-81979-1-1.html
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It's funny how France announced pretty much the same policy last week - all Huwawei kit to be out of the 5G networks by 2028.
How does that relate to your comment on chicken imports?
Let alone the continuing bizarre inisistance that any UK government is going to "sell off the NHS". A claim Labour has made at pretty much every election since 1950 - and yet is strangely still yet to happen - despite Labour having lost most of those subsequent elections...
France are removing the kit because if they don't then the Americans will stop sharing data with them and America are also bullies who will spit their dummy out if you don't do what they say. See trade tariffs for that. Do keep up good chap. That covers your first part.
The second part is covered by recent legislation to enshrine protection for the health service in law which the conservatives voted down. As for why it hasn't happened before is the same for all privatisations ever done. They first need to run it down to a point where the public accept privatisation as the only way of saving and improving it. They are well on their way to doing that. Then once privatised we get short term gains and long term losses until it's then brought back under government control for the tax payer to fix and then they can privatise it again. Also lets not forget the tax payer subsidies for the companies making profits. See British Rail as a great example of that.
Hope that clears it up for you.
Well, it worked a treat for our rail networks so what could possibly go wrong?
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Oh, wait.
Let alone the continuing bizarre inisistance that any UK government is going to "sell off the NHS".
Well it seems like they want to, otherwise they wouldn't have voted down this amendment:
[1]Here's the Lowdown on that Viral Tweet About the UK Government Selling Off the NHS
The government has repeatedly said it will not sell off the NHS – but nevertheless it voted against the amendment. And although every opposition party (even the DUP) voted for the amendment, not a single Tory MP rebelled and so it passed easily.
[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bv8y3w/heres-the-lowdown-on-that-viral-tweet-about-the-uk-government-selling-off-the-nhs
The way you say it, you'd think the decision was political...
And not even our politics.
Give it 4 months (hopefully), and I suspect we'll start to see a gradual reversal of the decisions...
I fail to see how hamstringing our networks to enable us to eat chlorinated chicken and sell off the NHS is of any benefit to anyone yet here we are.