Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

Something I don't see many people talking about is how Openreach, the UK's main physical layer broadband provider, uses Huawei kit in the majority of its street cabinets and has done since FTTC VDSL was rolled out a decade ago.

5G is the tip of the iceberg with respect to the UK's communications infrastructure involvement with Huawei.

Worse, Hyperoptic gives everyone a terrible ZTE router lol

The article does touch on this:

"New restrictions will also apply to use of the company's broadband kit.

Operators are being told they should "transition away" from purchasing new Huawei equipment for use in full-fibre networks, ideally within the next two years."

Not clear if this is just FTTP or whether it includes FTTC, but I doubt there's a lot of new investment in FTTC going forward.

Not sure about Hyperoptic, but CommunityFibre (gigabit FTTP) also uses Huawei routers (and presuming kit in the rest of their infra). I can hands down say, as much as it was a shit router, it still was better than the routers I've been given with any other provider.

At least for the two Hyperoptic installs I've had or seen in the past 2 years have been Tilgin routers (https://hyperoptic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Tilgin-HG2...) instead of ZTE routers.

I think they've ran out of them a long time ago. I requested a non-ZTE that support 5Ghz last year. They didn't have any and they said they weren't ordering them anymore. Those Tilgin are probably old stock.

Wireless edge infrastructure is probably a higher value target than FTTC cabinet infra. You don't need lateral movement within the network to access it/enter your backdoor, it can provide you location information of people nearby, and bricking a wireless device denies service to more people than a FTTC cabinet.