The National Communications Commission (NCC) yesterday denied blocking imports of telecoms equipment from China, saying it applies the same certification standards to all imported equipment.
The remarks came in the wake of a report by the Chinese-language Commercial Times that some telecoms carriers were unable to import mobile base stations from China-based Huawei Technologies Co (華為技術) and ZTE Corp (中興通訊).
Liang Wen-hsing (梁溫馨), a specialist at the NCC’s operational management department, said the commission only focused on issues relating to information security and regulation of personnel access to the control room, and asked the carriers to supply additional information. He said this should not be interpreted as “blocking.”
The commission said carriers must take action to prevent hackers from access via a remote control system, including monitoring abnormalities in communication traffic caused by the Trojan malware, said Lo Chin-hsien (羅金賢), deputy director of the NCC’s technologies administration department.
The commissioners are scheduled to hear a report from NCC staffers on how telecoms carriers address the issue of information security next week, a source within the commission said.
The commission is also likely to review Asia Pacific Telecom Co’s (亞太電信) planned purchase of mobile base stations and private branch exchanges made by Huawei, the source said.
A resolution made on the case will serve as a general principle when ruling on similar cases in the future, he said.
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