New Zealand rejects the use of Huawei 5G for national security reasons

The New Zealand intelligence agency rejected the first application of the country's telecommunications industry to use 5G technology equipment provided by the Chinese company Huawei Technologies Co

, alleging reasons of national security.

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The telecommunications service provider Spark New Zealand Ltd, which made this request, announced on Wednesday that it would review the argument of the public agency before it was released. consider new steps.

growing Western mistrust of the Chinese government's potential participation in mobile communication networks and the fifth generation. Huawei has repeatedly said that Beijing has no influence on these systems.

Earlier this year, neighboring Australia had banned Huawei from providing 5G equipment, also evoking security risks. Last week, the Wall Street Journal announced that the US government was trying to convince companies from allied countries to avoid Huawei.

"I informed Spark that a significant risk to the security of the company had been identified." Andrew Hampton, Director General of the Government's Communications Security Bureau, Wednesday. [19659005IntelligenceMinisterAndrewLittletoldReutersthatSparkwhoseapplicationwaspartofthecountry'sfirst5Gapplicationcouldworkwiththeagencytomitigatetherisksnotwantedtospecifytheconcernsnotingthatitwasclbadifiedinformation

Huawei said in a statement "that it would actively address all the concerns and concerns would work together to find the way forward, "adding that he had signed more than 20 5G contracts with operators around the world.