Why telcos are viewing quantum safety as a question of trust and business resilience If communications service providers (CSPs) are to protect their businesses from future quantum security threats, then they will have to identify and deal with data security vulnerabilities beyond their networks. “We do not only need to look at our networks. We also need to look at all our administration and backend systems, the orchestration systems,” according to Frank de Jong, speaking during an RCR Wireless' Quantum Safe Networks Forum 2026. “Because … with all the technology we [can] have very nice pipes. But if we make our management systems vulnerable to a quantum attack, then everything's still open. And I think that's one of the other elements that everybody needs to look at, but that the CSP really needs to look at,” emphasized De Jong. Singtel's Chief Customer Officer, Enterprise, Keith Leong, also stressed the importance of examining the wider security risk of quantum computing in larger terms. “It really requires lots of coordination across network engineering, cyber security, the cloud, the product, the enterprise architecture.” Quantum computers are a double-edged sword. They promise to solve in a few minutes an equation that would take a classical computer many thousands of years to crack. Within the telecoms sector this would make them useful for computationally intense applications such as as network optimisation. The flip side is that the same computational power would allow malicious actors to decode the cryptography that protects today’s networks and IT systems, which gives hackers an incentive to “harvest now, decrypt later”. As Orange Business’ de Jong points out, “the proper bad actors will not let you know that they are harvesting your data. In all reality, you should just assume it's happening, and it has already happened.” For this reason, he