Europe and the U.S. have concerns that Chinese involvement in critical infrastructure could compromise security.
The Security Assessment Commission created within the scope of the CSSC has over the past nine months assessed the security aspects of all existing equipment in Portugal, regardless of "technology, merit or quality", and applied the criteria of the EU 5G security toolbox.
"Because there is this balance between security and the operators' return on investment, Portugal does not consider compensating them for replacing equipment," he said.
Asked if the deliberation was aimed at Chinese suppliers such as Huawei, he said: "Of course not".
Portugal's main operators, Altice, NOS (NOS.LS) and Vodafone (VOD.L) have already said they would not use Huawei's equipment in 5G core networks.
Persons:
Mario Campolargo, Campolargo, Sergio Goncalves, David Evans
Organizations:
Huawei, Reuters, Union, U.S, EU, NATO, OECD, Vodafone, Thomson
Locations:
LISBON, Portugal, digitalisation, Europe, Beijing, EU