The United States said Reliance Jio had dismissed business with “the Chinese Communist Party’s state surveillance tools.”
Washington:
The United States has listed Reliance Jio among the companies that are becoming “clean telecommunications operators”, saying they refuse to do business with “Communist Party of China state surveillance tools like Huawei.”
According to the US State Department, Clean Network is a global effort by a coalition of like-minded countries and businesses to secure their critical telecommunications, cloud, data analytics, mobile applications, the Internet objects and 5G technologies from “malicious actors” by relying on only trusted vendors who are not subject to unfair or extrajudicial scrutiny by authoritarian governments such as the Chinese Communist Party.
“Some of the world‘s largest telecommunications companies are also becoming ‘clean Telcos’. Orange in France, Jio in India, Telstra in Australia, SK and KT in South Korea, NTT in Japan and O2 in the UK are refusing to do business with Chinese Communist Party surveillance state tools, like Huawei, ”the State Department said in a statement.
Last week, Reliance Industries Limited Chairman Mukesh Ambani announced that Reliance Jio has designed and developed a complete 5G solution from scratch and that the same solution will be ready for testing as soon as the 5G spectrum becomes available.
He said the 5G solution may be ready for field development next year.
On April 29, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the US State Department would begin requiring a clean lane for all 5G network traffic entering and exiting US diplomatic facilities.
5G Clean Path is an end-to-end communication path that does not use any transmission, control, compute, or storage equipment from untrusted IT vendors, such as Huawei and ZTE, who are required to adhere to the guidelines of the Chinese Communist Party. , read the statement.
The 5G Clean Path embodies the highest security standards against the ability of high-risk, untrusted providers to disrupt, manipulate, or deny services to individuals, financial institutions or critical infrastructure.
The United States had identified Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE Corp as threats to national security, saying it had close ties to the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese military apparatus.
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