Spy chief wanted ban on China telecoms from Australian 5G

  CANBERRA, Australia --- Australia's critical infrastructure including electricity grids, water supplies and hospitals could not have been adequately safeguarded if Chinese-owned telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE Corp. were allowed to help roll out the nation's 5G network, a spy chief said. Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate, said his cyber experts had backed the government's decision in August to bar the two Chinese companies that he described as "high-risk vendors." It was the first time the secretive agency had disclosed such information. "My advice was to exclude high-risk vendors from the entirety of evolving 5G networks," Burges...

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