Australia announced that it would stop using Huawei and ZTE mobile phones!

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Australia has publicly stated that it will gradually phase out Huawei and ZTE mobile phones. Following the United States, Australia has also publicly stated that it will gradually phase out Huawei and ZTE mobile phones.

According to Business Insider, as the outside world continues to issue warnings, Australian government agencies have decided to gradually phase out Huawei and ZTE mobile phones from mainland China. A spokesperson for the Australian Department of Defense confirmed that they will no longer use any Huawei and ZTE products, and that those purchased previously, although still in use for the time being, will be cancelled after a period of time and replaced with products from other manufacturers.

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It is reported that Huawei is trying to provide 5G mobile phone network equipment to Australia recently. Currently, Australia's telecommunications giants Optus and Vodafone are working with Huawei to launch 5G, and only Australian telecommunications company Telstra uses Ericsson as a 5G supplier. There are only a handful of suppliers of 5G technology in the world, in addition to Nokia and Ericsson, there are China's Huawei and ZTE. The Australian Financial Review said that in order to alleviate national security concerns caused by its products, Huawei has been lobbying the Australian government in recent months.

According to the Observer.com report, the Australian Department of Defense made this decision two weeks after the United States said "no" to Huawei and ZTE. Previously, six US intelligence agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Security Agency, simultaneously recommended at a hearing of the US Senate Intelligence Committee that Americans should not use Huawei and ZTE products because of the risk of espionage. They believe that these companies have close ties with Chinese intelligence agencies.

“We are very concerned that companies or entities controlled by foreign governments that do not share our values ​​are allowed to gain positions of power in our telecommunications networks,” said Chris Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “Because it provides the ability to exert pressure and control over our telecommunications infrastructure, the ability to maliciously modify or steal information, and the ability to conduct espionage without being detected. These are things we are concerned about.”

Deep Technology published an article stating that during his recent visit to the United States, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull listened to the concerns of the heads of the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security about Huawei's desire to provide equipment for Australia's new telephone network.

Since the beginning of this year, major US mobile operators AT&T and Verizon have announced that they will give up cooperation with Huawei. Chinese media commented that the decisions of AT&T and Verizon have made Huawei's American dream dim.

Bloomberg News quoted Roger Entner, an analyst at market research firm Recon Analytics LLC, last month as saying, "Your phone is the ultimate Trojan horse. ... If someone has control of your phone, they can do a lot of things. They can turn on the microphone or camera, and if you work for a defense contractor or chip manufacturer, they can get sensitive information."

In fact, as early as 2012, the U.S. House Intelligence Committee issued a report recommending that U.S. private companies seek other suppliers and that government systems and contractors refuse to use products from these two Chinese companies.

The report believes that the expansion of these two companies in the United States and their entry into the country's critical telecommunications and data processing infrastructure poses a security threat to the United States.

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