Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani had told US President
Donald Trump during his February visit to India that Jio was the only network
in the world to not have a single Chinese component.
US Secretary of
State Mike
Pompeo has declared Reliance Jio a "clean" network for not using
the Chinese company Huawei's equipment, keeping it safe from Beijing's
intelligence intrusions.
Listing Jio among the "world's leading" telecom operators, Pompeo said on Wednesday that it was one of the "Clean Telcos" for spurning Huawei, which he called a part of the "Chinese Communist Party (CCP) infrastructure."
Reliance
Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani had told US President Donald Trump during
his February visit to India that Jio was the only network in the world to not
have a single Chinese component.
Jio is reportedly
trying the 'swadeshi' route for 5G and has applied to the Department of
Telecommunications for permission to carry out lab tests for the technology
without third-party participation.
Facebook announced
a $5.7 billion investment in Jio in April.
Pompeo said that
by Jio along with some other Canadian, British and French telecoms was
"disconnecting from the Chinese Communist Party infrastructure" by
not using Huawei equipment.
"They are
rejecting doing business with tools of the CCP surveillance state, companies
like Huawei," he added while speaking to the media before the release of
the State Department's annual terrorism report.
The US campaign
against the Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer over fears its gear can be
used for espionage has intensified as the company begins its push into the
next-generation 5G networks.
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