The Telecomms Security Bill

Today the governments' Telecommunications Security Bill is being debated in Parliament. This bill aims to provide the powers needed to boost the security standards of the UK’s telecoms networks and remove the threat of high risk vendors.

  • The UK faces an ever-present threat from cyber-attack, and we must ensure that our critical telecoms networks, that we rely on every day, are protected.
     
  • That is why the government is introducing a Telecommunications Security Bill, which will boost the security standards of the entire UK telecoms network, as well as giving us new powers to completely remove high risk vendors such as Huawei from our 5G networks, starting with a hard deadline for mobile network operators to stop installing Huawei equipment from September 2021, and the launch of an ambitious new Diversification Strategy that will find homegrown ways to open up the worldwide 5G market.
     
  • Both the government and companies like BT are investing billions to roll out 5G and gigabit broadband across the country. BT is investing twelve billion pounds in Openreach's full fibre network. The benefits from this massive investment can only be realised if we have full confidence in the security and resilience of our networks.

I am writing this post in my capacity as a Conservative activist. In the interests of full transparency, let me declare that I am employed by Openreach, which is part of the BT group. The information above is based on a briefing by the Conservative research department and does not necessarily reflect the views of BT or Openreach.

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