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Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

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293 points doener | 4 comments | 14 Jul 20 12:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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benlumen ◴[14 Jul 20 21:51 UTC] No.23838421[source]▶
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.

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1. wyuenho ◴[14 Jul 20 22:00 UTC] No.23838524[source]▶
Worse, Hyperoptic gives everyone a terrible ZTE router lol
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2. dastx ◴[14 Jul 20 22:37 UTC] No.23838930[source]▶
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.
3. Deathmax ◴[14 Jul 20 23:01 UTC] No.23839148[source]▶
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.
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4. wyuenho ◴[14 Jul 20 23:08 UTC] No.23839214[source]▶
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.