This is not the first time. Huawei was banned from supplying for India's National Broadband Network in 2012, and has again been banned from supplying for India's 5G revamp.
Not all employees would be in on the espionage attempts either. It'd have to be a very limited circle that knows about it.
That is bordering on fake news. Huawei was not part of the inital group of companies invited by DoT. I have no idea why Huawei was exculed earlier and then invited later.[1] Bu then again, that's Indian babudom for you.
> Not all employees would be in on the espionage attempts either. It'd have to be a very limited circle that knows about it.
My point was entirely about what would be in any company's rational self-interest and the findings of Western countries that evaluate Huawei equipment. Honestly, I wish the Indian governemnt would do something similar with all vendors.
I buy Huawei gear and dislike my government attempting to limit my free market choices. Cisco was (is) just as vulnerable, people just don't talk about it because they have so many lawyers. https://artkond.com/2017/04/10/cisco-catalyst-remote-code-ex...
Free market choices in this case have hidden costs. Huawei was selling hardware with user manuals from cisco because they were exact copies. When IP is stolen, countries lose incentive to invest in R&D. Note almost every major Bell-labs era research center has been shut down or dramatically weakend, the most recent being Dow/Dupont.
Not all employees would be in on the espionage attempts either. It'd have to be a very limited circle that knows about it.