Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to Huawei

Re:Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to H... by gnfargbl on Saturday February 01, 2020 @01:04PM (#22212016)

From the NCSC themselves:

The cap at 35% ensures the UK will not become nationally dependent on a high risk vendor while retaining competition in the market and allowing operators to continue to use two Radio Access Network (RAN) vendors.

In other words, the limit isn’t there to mitigate the risk of Huawei being malign (there are other mitigations in place for that risk, such as keeping them away from sensitive network functions). The limit is there to prevent the operator from becoming entirely beholden to Huawei.

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Re:Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to H... by iso1631 on Saturday February 01, 2020 @02:45PM (#22212752)

In general no single supplier should provide more than 35% of any source. Anyone beholden to a single supplier is opening themselves up to be ripped off at best.

Problems of course come when suppliers merge. I have contracts with 8 different supplier for my business, one goes bust, or jacks up prices, and I simply increase supplies of the other 7.

Then those 8 companies start merging, and before long you're left with a single supplier, or at best a cartel.

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