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  Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill - Communications Network Operators - High Risk Vendors - Access to Install Services
  
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  @ MP voted aye to restrict those network operators able to use a new process to seek a court order giving them access and permission to install their services to operators not using suppliers defined by the National Cyber Security Centre as high-risk. 
  
  @ MP voted no not to restrict those network operators able to use a new process to seek a court order giving them access and permission to install their services to operators not using suppliers defined by the National Cyber Security Centre as high-risk. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted not to restrict those network operators able to use a new process to seek a court order giving them access and permission to install their services to operators not using suppliers defined by the National Cyber Security Centre as high-risk. 
  
  The rejected amendment
  
  MPs were considering the Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill[1].
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 1, in clause 1, page 2, line 16, at end insertâ
  
  :"(f) the operator does not, after 31 December 2022, use vendors defined by the National Cyber Security Centre as high-risk vendors."
  
  The NCSC advice on the use of equipment from high risk vendors in UK telecoms networks[2] states:
  
  :In order to minimise the additional cyber security risk caused by [high risk vendors], NCSC believe it is necessary and proportionate to limit their presence in networks
  
  
  
  * [1] [https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2019-21/telecommunicationsinfrastructureleaseholdproperty.html Parliament's webpage on the Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill, Parliament.uk]
  * [2] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-01/0002/en/0002en02.htm Explanatory notes to the Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill, Parliament.uk]
  * [3] [https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/ncsc-advice-on-the-use-of-equipment-from-high-risk-vendors-in-uk-telecoms-networks#section_3 NCSC advice on the use of equipment from high risk vendors in UK telecoms networks, UK National Cyber Security Centre]
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