- Huawei has won a contract to provide digital storage for the Spanish government
- The Chinese technology giant will store and classify the telephone -shaped telephone
- This contrasts other Western states which now largely avoid Huawei and Chinese technology
All telephone listening to the Spanish government made by the police will soon be managed by the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei thanks to a recently won contract.
The 12.3 million euros contract was awarded to Huawei after a standard public procurement procedure – and the contract includes the digital storage of the telephone listening ordered by the courts, reports The objective.
Huawei will provide its own high performance storage servers, OceanStor 6800 V5 for the project, which will store and classify intercepted communications and data collected through state agencies.
Mixed messages
The national police sectors in Spain were worried with Huawei’s involvement in sensitive systems, sources expressing their concern about strategic inconsistencies concerning China and state access to data and a potential threat to national security.
Huawei underlines that no stolen bearer has never been identified in its telecommunications equipment, and the company says that it would not respond to CCP intelligence requests, and its equipment would not be used to spy on (unless you count the government’s electronic listening contracts).
The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was one of the least combative of the presence of Huawei, Spain remaining a close partner within the EU for the company – holding several contracts with public administrations.
It is interesting to note that public procurement contrasts with the de facto banishment of Spain of the Chinese telecommunications giant of all critical infrastructure, having reduced the presence of Huawei in the 5G nuclei of the three largest Spanish operators to 0%, according to the Euronews.
European and American governments have moved more and more from Chinese technological companies in recent months, mainly citing national security problems and the threat of exfiltrated data.
An current trade war between the United States and China has seen companies on both sides cut off from the opposing market, market leaders as the manufacturer of Nvidia flea markets saying that American prices mean that it faces several billion dollars.
