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HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q What interventions would support them? Dr Sellars: For interventions, I would suggest that the Advanced Propulsion Centre is a really good model to look at. It is in a different…19 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q It was a question to Dr Johnson with regard to open RAN maturity as an IP. Dr Johnson: So, the 45-second answer: Mavenir is using IP access GSM 3G technology in its open RAN…19 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Fourth sitting)Great. Thank you very much.19 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q That’s great. David? Dr Cleevely: Thanks, Chi—nice to see you. One of the things that was mentioned in the session a little bit earlier was standards, and I think one of the…19 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Mr McCabe. I was going to ask on behalf of my colleague, Catherine West, who cannot be here because we have chosen to sit physically rather than remotely. […14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q So, what are other countries doing that you are aware of? Hamish MacLeod: The States, New Zealand and Australia have all excluded Huawei, among others. We could supply you with…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q That is really helpful. What you are saying is that although you could deliver a full-service 2G, 3G, 4G or 5G network tomorrow, that is not what our mobile operators want. They…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q That is very helpful. I think you said that a site would connect not with fibre, but with something else. Stefano Cantarelli: Not only with fibre. The open RAN interface is such…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q I wholeheartedly agree with that last comment about the importance of competition, particularly in the supply chain. That is my experience as well, in terms of building out…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q You seem to be saying, then, that you are in a position to compete with Nokia and Ericsson as of today. Is that what you are saying? Chris Jackson: We would not compete with…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q And who are those other vendors? Are they UK, Europe or US-based? Chris Jackson: The majority would be US-based now, but again, we are not restricted to that. As a systems…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (First sitting)Q Can you say why the risk profile is different for fixed as opposed to mobile? Howard Watson: Fundamentally, you are dealing with a customer that is a fixed end point, so you are…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q And NEC? Chris Jackson: Just to add to what Pardeep has been saying, I think open RAN is not about, necessarily, any one company providing an all-encompassing solution. So at…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q So you couldn’t provide a network tomorrow, but you could provide a network in how long—a 2, 3, 4 or 5G network? Pardeep Kohli: So if the frequency band radios are available…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q Who builds the radios? Pardeep Kohli: Today, because it has always been proprietary solutions, that is where the challenge comes for companies like us, because it is demand and…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)It is computing—it is processors. Pardeep Kohli: That is correct. You get processors for CPU or general-purpose computing, or even if there are some accelerators, which we use for…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Sorry—say that again. I could not hear that. What is the rest of it? Pardeep Kohli: It is general-purpose open compute; it is already available hardware.14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you for joining us today. Having read your bios, I am impressed by the breadth, geographic as well as technical and operational, of your experience. To make this concrete…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Catherine is always interested to understand what international comparisons there are, but I think that that has already been addressed, so thank you; she will be grateful to you.14 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications (Security) Bill (Second sitting)Q I did not think I would get a chance to ask further questions. I respect your reluctance, if you like, to voice criticisms at this stage, but can I just get a further idea on…14 Jan 2021