Nokia executives warned not to use Huawei 5G equipment, officials urgently clarified: not representing the company

According to BBC News UK, Nokia Chief Technology Officer Marcus Weldon told the BBC that the UK should be wary of using Chinese hardware. He said that Huawei's telecommunications equipment has vulnerabilities, which means it poses a risk to 5G networks.

 However, after the British BBC reported the relevant remarks, Nokia officials urgently clarified that the executive's remarks did not represent the company, and even asked the BBC to revise the manuscript. Nokia said in a statement, "Nokia is focused on the integrity of its own products and services and has not conducted its own assessment of any potential vulnerabilities related to competitors."

At present, the British BBC has also revised its report, changing the title from the original "Nokia Warns UK over using Huawei 5G kit" to "Nokia distances itself from boss's warning over Huawei 5G kit", and gave Nokia's official statement inside the article.

The article also states that Weldon mentioned a new report from the US security company Limited State, which details the vulnerabilities of Huawei's enterprise network equipment. The report states that "we found that Huawei's equipment is less secure than similar equipment from other suppliers", and then Weldon added, "To be honest, they (Huawei) did not patch the vulnerabilities or upgrade them"; Weldon also said that after reading the report, "we think we are doing much better than them."

In fact, Huawei's equipment has been under close scrutiny by GCHQ in the UK, but ultimately no backdoors were found in the company's products; and Weldon's statement was denied by a Nokia spokesperson - "his remarks were misleading."

Interestingly, Weldon admitted that "Nokia's equipment is not subject to the same rigorous inspections in the UK as Huawei's," but "our equipment is subject to global (customer) scrutiny."