Huawei trying to stay in Canadian market for 5G with promise to not use system for spying, legal documents say
Posted September 17, 2020 9:02 am.
Chinese telecom company Huawei is trying to stay in the Canadian market for 5G technologies with a promise to not use the system for spying.
Huawei Canada has drawn up what’s being described as a ‘no-spying’ legal pledge.
Documents obtained by the Globe and Mail shows the tech company proposing a specific process to prove its equipment does not have secret backdoors to enable the Chinese government to use 5G as a spying conduit.
The pledge, which the Globe and Mail says has not been officially presented to the federal government, cites a commitment to reject information requests from Chinese security agencies.
This comes as Canada remains the only nation in the so-called ‘five eyes’ alliance to not ban Huawei from 5G, including the U.S., the U.K., and Australia.
While the Trudeau government has yet to make a ruling, the big three Canadian telecom service providers have already, for the most part, selected other 5G tech partners.
