If you buy huawei 4g/5g equipment, can you run it yourself completely? It is probably completely standard if you have their gear to also pay for their support and thus needing to give them access to your network.
You can run a mobile network with minimal external access, but the economics are such that few want to - in an era of outsourcing and managed services, it's less about what can be done, and more about what is done in reality.
Managed service providers have significant levels of access into mobile networks, beyond what many are aware.
For me as a private citizen of the UK the Chinese having access seems less likely to impact me than USA having that access.
How about "no" to all of that nonsense?
I agree, but I'm not sure if we can stop it.
I think it's desirable to ask them to be transparent about it though. Knowing what's is place and how it works seems like a basic right.
This is what made me think that this is at its heart not about security at all and more about just isolating Huawei.