‘KPN is not stupid but we must take this very seriously.

Translated:

KPN is stoopid so we must take this very seriously.

I don't know about NL and KPN but the US regulators should have seen this coming when they broke At&T Bell Labs (an all American character) into Lucent and eventually sold it to frenchies.

This will be fun, Huawei already run most european telco's networks or telco's are switching to them as they offer cheaper and higher level of service from the traditional suppliers (Ericson's or Nokia/Siemens)

I don't think Huwaei would waste money spying on Holland. You only need a newspaper subscription to get the latest update on Government secrets, and an internet terminal to download personal data from all its unsecured servers.

the way our own government is already spying on us (in the US) , i suspect that it is a lot easer for the chinese to spy on all other countries if given the chance , and this is a big one .

The U.S. should stay out of other countrie's business. When the Port of Rotterdam is on a list of strategic importance to American secutity interests we are dealing with folks who presume to have the divine right to meddle in other countries' affairs and invade countries whenever it suits their economical intrests. Other Dutch coatal towns, where communication cables are entering Europe, are on that list American hubris is frightening

Huawei was started because the Chinese government did not trust US produced gear and had found several backdoor in cisco products... I'm just surprised MPs have time to talk about this US-only interest with all the real work they have to do in OUR country.

The US always making things difficult for non US people because they only want more money and always citing security as the excuse.

Don't fool yourselves, I've heard the Australian government had also banned them from participating in their National Broadband roll out, KPN is a profit driven business, as such may only see the $$ signs not the warning signs. So we need to protect ourselves! That's not to say the US hasn't been doing the same and doesn't like competition.

Mike - what a lot of nonsense you speak. Huawei ripped off Cisco source code and then China started to mass produce devices it hadnt spent any R&D on.
Security & Huawei - these devices are lethal!

It's nothing that 30,000 drones can't fix. For your safety and security of course.

‘KPN is not stupid (but we must take this very seriously)'

The man has obviously never had reason to call their Customer Helpline then! Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

As a former KPN employee myself, it does not surprise me in the least that they did not do the proper security checks when sourcing from or partnering with Huawei and ZTE. Very Dutch of them to be blinded by the savings (due to cheap labor and products). FYI - ZTE actually has its own building at KPN HQ. I suspected the spying a long time ago...