The Government’s ‘5G Supply Chain Diversification Strategy’ provides an overview of the Government’s intentions for addressing the current lack of vendors in the UK’s 5G infrastructure equipment market. The Government itself acknowledges that this will take time. Although the decision to forbid the use of 5G equipment procured from Huawei after 2020 was made following US sanctions announced in May 2020, the potential threat from telecommunications infrastructure supplied by foreign vendors an...

The Government’s ‘5G Supply Chain Diversification Strategy’ provides an overview of the Government’s intentions for addressing the current lack of vendors in the UK’s 5G infrastructure equipment market. The Government itself acknowledges that this will take time. Although the decision to forbid the use of 5G equipment procured from Huawei after 2020 was made following US sanctions announced in May 2020, the potential threat from telecommunications infrastructure supplied by foreign vendors and the concentration in the UK’s vendor market have been known for many years. It is therefore disappointing that the Government and its predecessors have Type: recommendation | Number: 1 | Paragraph: 14 | Response status: accepted Government response: The Government agrees with the Committee’s assessment of the scale of the diversification challenge and agrees that there is a need to work at pace to make early progress and build momentum as we work toward our long term ambitions. for new supplier