Huawei criticised for potentially compromising UK infrastructure with old third-party software
Huawei is using software that will be unsupported from 2020, in hardware that will be used for years to come

US company Wind River Systems supplies the software, which Huawei uses in products it supplies to BT and Vodafone, among others
Huawei is drawing ire in the UK over its use of third-party software in its products, which will come to end-of-life long before the hardware itself does. As reported last month, the Oversight Board...
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