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<p>No Huawei equipment is used in the parliamentary telecoms, communications, security
or surveillance networks.</p><p>The only use of Huawei kit is for mobile cellular
enhancement. Firstly, this is in devices (commonly referenced as MiFi devices) that
are used to boost access to the parliamentary mobile phone provider’s network (O2)
where signal strength is problematic. The MiFi devices do not connect to the Parliamentary
network and should be viewed as extensions to the O2 mobile phone network. This equipment
is branded O2 rather than Huawei.</p><p>Secondly, there already is, and there will
be some additional, Huawei equipment installed by the four Mobile Network Operators
to provide cellular signal enhancement in Parliament.</p><p>Huawei components are
used by all the major mobile telephony networks in the UK. Parliament has no evidence
on which to base a recommendation either in favour of or against the use of Huawei
kit on such networks. The risk of mobile phone telecommunications networks use of
Huawei kit is managed at a national level by the National Cyber Security Centre, Centre
for the Protection of National Infrastructure and the private sector, and Parliament
takes its lead from the national stance on the risks present from its use.</p>
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