The necessities, which can cowl main suppliers KPN , T-Mobile and Vodafone, are a part of a sequence of strikes to strengthen requirements after a 2019 evaluation of the dangers posed by China and different international locations recognized as having an “offensive cyber technique”.
In a ministerial decree, junior Financial Affairs Minister Mona Keijzer additionally specified that telecoms suppliers should retain community information for at the least three months in case it’s wanted to analyse “superior threats and assault vectors”.
Britain and France have successfully banned China’s Huawei from serving to construct their 5G telecoms networks. The Dutch authorities stated final 12 months distributors may very well be excluded if they’ve “shut ties to international governments concerned in spying”.
It didn’t title Huawei particularly, regardless of stress from parliament to take action.
Final month, KPN stated it might use Sweden’s Ericsson to construct core components of its 5G cellular community.
In Might, the higher home of parliament accepted a legislation giving the federal government energy to dam “undesirable” takeovers of telecommunications firms.
That features an obligation for any would-be purchaser of a greater than 30% stake in a Dutch telecom to ask the federal government first.
