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UK reverses approval to Huawei on 5G – Sydney Morning Herald
Boris Johnson has reversed an approval given just seven months ago to the Chinese company.
London: Boris Johnson’s government has banned the use of new Huawei equipment in Britain’s 5G rollout from the end of the year in a stunning about-turn after the Prime Minister’s green light just seven months ago to the Chinese firm.
Announcing the new decision after a furious backlash from Conservative MPs and the Trump administration, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said 5G networks would be required to be free of all Huawei equipment by 2027.
Dowden said new sanctions imposed by the US Department of Commerce forbidding US companies from supplying Huawei was the cause of the change.
“By the time of the next election we will have implemented in law an irreversible path for the complete removal of Huawei equipment from our 5G networks,” Dowden said.
In January, the British government ignored Australia and the United States’ pleas to omit Huawei from the 5G rollout because of spying concerns.
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