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UK announces Huawei will be out of 5G networks by 2027

The United Kingdom on Tuesday announced that telecom equipment from Huawei will be phased out of the country's 5G infrastructure by 2027. The announcement is a significant step in the US-led effort to get governments around the world to refrain from using Chinese technology in the next generation of cellular networks. The UK had initially allowed Huawei to have a role in the country's 5G networks. But Prime Minister Boris Johnson later expressed doubt, questioning the role of "potentially hostile state vendors" in critical infrastructure, signalling Tuesday's move. We have reached out to Huawei for comment. In May, the US added to its existing sanctions against Huawei, preventing companies that used American technology from doing business with Huawei. Weeks later, the FCC designated Huawei as a threat to national security. Huawei in India On June 24, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo name-checked Jio as one of the operators globally “rejecting doing business with tools of the CCP surveillance state, like Huawei”. But like elsewhere in the world, telcos in India remain reliant on Huawei's equipment. In June, the Financial Express reported that while the Indian government has not offered any tangible guidance on Huawei, the telecom industry would resist moves that would lock the Chinese company out. Then-COAI Director General Rajan Mathews told the publication that commercial and geopolitical issues should be kept separate. A few weeks after the India–China border skirmishes, BSNL cancelled a 4G supply tender, reportedly aiming to rework it to make Chinese vendors ineligible. In June, NITI…

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