Ministry of Defence: Mobile Phones

(asked on 13th May 2024) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of mobile phones used by (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department were manufactured by (i) Huwaei, (ii) ZTE, (iii) Oppo, (iv) Honor and (v) Xiaomi.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
This question was answered on 21st May 2024

The Department’s Core network doesn’t use any Huawei or ZTE Routers.

The Department's main corporate IT system (MODNET) does not use any laptops or desktops manufactured by Lenovo or Xiaomi.

The Department does not supply any mobile phones supplied by Huwaei, (ii) ZTE, (iii) Oppo, (iv) Honor or (v) Xiaomi. None of the device manufacturers listed are used on the MODs enterprise systems.

The Department's main corporate IT system (MODNET) does not permit the download or use of WPS Office on its devices.

None of the sim cards used on the Ministry of Defence’s enterprise systems are provided by CMLink.

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