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Grand Committee
Telecommunications (Security) Bill
Committee stage - Thu 15 Jul 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) the security of our critical infrastructure”, including “communication information networks” such as 5G - Speech Link
2: Baroness Merron (LAB - Life peer) agree that we cannot have a robust and secure network with only two service providers—Ericsson and Nokia—which - Speech Link
3: Lord Fox (LDEM - Life peer) I would like your Lordships to cast your minds back to 2003, the year when the Nokia 1100 mobile phone - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Telecommunications (Security) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 29 Jun 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) In the other place, my right honourable friend the Secretary of State spoke about the potential for 5G - Speech Link
2: Earl of Erroll (CB - Excepted Hereditary) and Huawei; Samsung also has a whole load of stuff out there; there are a whole lot of others—such as Nokia - Speech Link
3: Baroness Merron (LAB - Life peer) It said that smaller equipment manufacturers should provide 25% of the kit used in 5G networks. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) the network that are not high-risk vendors, which therefore would include non-UK businesses such as Nokia - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Telecommunications (Security) Bill
Report stage - Tue 25 May 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) the removal of Huawei, at an estimated cost of £2 billion and a delay of two to three years to our 5G - Speech Link
2: None Today there are only three non-Chinese companies in existence that can build a 5G system. - Speech Link
3: None The Bill strengthens the security framework used for 5G and full-fibre networks. - Speech Link
4: Bob Stewart (CON - Beckenham) Nokia and Ericsson are not, but they get a lot of their kit from China, so they are not pure either. - Speech Link
5: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) Right now, the only beneficiaries would appear to be Ericsson, Nokia and lawyers. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Thu 04 Mar 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) They show the progress that is being made in the deployment of gigabit-capable networks and 4G and 5G - Speech Link
2: None examples, in December 2020 the DCMS Select Committee published its report, Broadband and the road to 5G - Speech Link
3: Lord Fox (LDEM - Life peer) I remind the Minister that the Government’s stated aim is to have 5G open RAN up and running this year - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) test beds and trials programme that will showcase 5G open RAN technology. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Telecommunications (Security) Bill (Seventh sitting)
Committee stage: 7th sitting - Tue 26 Jan 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Matt Warman (CON - Boston and Skegness) published a targeted diversification strategy, which will deliver lasting and meaningful change in the 5G - Speech Link
2: Matt Warman (CON - Boston and Skegness) January last year that new restrictions should be placed on the use of high-risk vendors in the UK’s 5G - Speech Link
3: Matt Warman (CON - Boston and Skegness) Those announcements include advice that require a public telecoms provider to exclude Huawei from their 5G - Speech Link
4: None show that this is not only about the ability to control our signalling systems and protocols in the 5G - Speech Link
5: None for whatever reason, to issue a designation notice against one of the remaining vendors—Ericsson or Nokia - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Telecommunications (Security) Bill (Eighth sitting)
Committee stage: 8th sitting - Tue 26 Jan 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) As we deploy 5G into rural communities, that is likely to require low Earth orbit satellites; we are - Speech Link
2: None The Government seem to have placed open RAN technology at the centre of their strategy to diversify 5G - Speech Link
3: None others who gave evidence are among those who we have spoken to and worked closely with, as we have with Nokia - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Telecommunications (Security) Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Thu 21 Jan 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) The loss of one vendor would mean that there would be only one vendor for our entire 5G network supply - Speech Link
2: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) Now that Huawei is no longer in the network, we are going to have Ericsson and Nokia, both of which are - Speech Link
3: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) The issue with both Ericsson and Nokia is that they will have Chinese components in their hardware. - Speech Link
4: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) practice.Considering specifically the impact of the requirement to remove Huawei at this stage in our 5G - Speech Link
5: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) networks.For example, network providers such as Vodafone or Three have primary vendors—currently Ericsson or Nokia—but - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Telecommunications (Security) Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Thu 21 Jan 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) components in all our mobile phones in our pockets today will have come from China, including Ericsson and Nokia - Speech Link
2: Matt Warman (CON - Boston and Skegness) control of the security of their networks and services at a time when the UK stands on the cusp of a 5G - Speech Link
3: None We heard about overlapping 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G networks, with different equipment of different ages. - Speech Link
4: None With the removal of Huawei, we are down to two equipment vendors, Ericsson and Nokia. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Telecommunications (Security) Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee Debate: 4th sitting: House of Commons - Tue 19 Jan 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: David Johnston (CON - Wantage) certain degree of scale but did not get to the point where we could compete effectively with Ericsson, Nokia - Speech Link
2: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) 2027, and the equivalent that is going to go in is basically going to be two vendors, Ericsson and Nokia - Speech Link
3: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) Helen Duncan: I do not think it is necessarily the case that they will just use Ericsson and Nokia equipment - Speech Link
4: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) took over, Motorola ceased base station manufacturing in 2002, but stayed open and was then sold to Nokia - Speech Link
5: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) seen as a silver bullet and even companies that might not be interested in pursuing this area, such as Nokia - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Telecommunications (Security) Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Thu 14 Jan 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) procurement is currently made through what I will call full-service providers, such as Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia - Speech Link
2: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) Q So, for the conceivable future, we will be reliant on those two vendors: Nokia and Ericsson.Derek - Speech Link
3: Dean Russell (CON - Watford) lot of work to do just to manage within the current market framework to replace Huawei and to bring Nokia - Speech Link
4: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) Effectively, we already use Nokia to extend their reach, but also to introduce Ericsson. - Speech Link