The Australian government has stressed its determination to protect information security on a planned national broadband network in an indication that Huawei, the Chinese telecom infrastructure vendor, could be excluded from contracts for building it.
“The National Broadband Network is the largest nation-building project in Australian history, and it will become the backbone of Australia’s information infrastructure,” said the attorney-general’s office yesterday.
“As such, and as a strategic and significant government investment, we have a responsibility to do our utmost to protect its integrity and that of the information carried on it.”