The local arm of Chinese-owned telecoms services and equipment giant Huawei wants Australians to know it's not a threat to national security.
Chairman John Lord, a former rear admiral, also says the controversial company's equipment is "safe and secure".
"Banning Huawei will not make the Australian telecom ecosystem safer, but will have a huge impact on the industry and the prices and services Australians receive," he said ahead of his Press Club speech on Wednesday.
"It will be a great policy failure and demonstrate to the world that we are not ready for the new reality of a smart and innovative China."
Australia recently decided to fund new data cables to the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea rather than let Huawei build them, over concerns about Chinese intelligence getting access to them.
And Huawei looks set to be banned from being involved in the rollout of 5G mobile technology in Australia for the same reasons.
John Lord has told the National Press Club, the company's equipment is safe and secure.
"At Huawei we're proud of our transparency, our track record of demonstrating and making available customers and governments, everything we do. We're proud that we're the most audited, most inspected, reviewed, and critiqued global ICT player in the world. We're proud that after every kind of inspection, aduit, review, nothing sinister has been found. No wrongdoing. No criminal action. No intent. No back door. No planted vulnerability and no magical kill switch."
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