John Suffolk, a leader in cyber security and privacy protection at Huawei, a major communications equipment company in China, responded to an Asahi Shimbun interview in London. Huawei talks about Suffolk, who joined the company eight years ago after working as a Information Security Officer (CIO) of the British government. (Interview / Composition Keiko Yoshioka)
Is it okay to be excluded by the US?
-The US government has banned some US products to Huawei due to security concerns. We are also seeking other countries to eliminate Huawei from the next generation communication standard 5G market.
“We have more than 50 5G contracts with carriers around the world from Asia to Europe, and it's increasing. A Southeast Asian government official said,“ All of our operators are Huawei. I want to choose, but it is not recognized by the government. I will hire multiple companies including yours to ensure certainty. ”A country that wants to monopolize the supply of 5G network to one company It ’s because there ’s a risk that everything will go down when something happens, and we need competition. ”
“We have a 5G contract with a British carrier, and Italy is in that direction. The European Union (EU) leaves it to the decision of each country, and France and Germany say we do n’t exclude us.”
“There is certainly competitiveness”
--UK is the core technology for Huawei…