Huawei faces a German ban on 5G
To recall, the European Commission had previously discussed countries’ exclusion of high-risk 5G companies such as Huawei from the core telecommunications network. Following this, many other countries in the region, including the UK, Sweden, Latvia and Lithuania, announced that the Chinese giant would be banned from their 5G networks. Germany, on the other hand, responded negatively to pressures to ban Huawei. However, this decision may be withdrawn.
As reported, the German Ministry of Internal Affairs has made a new proposal that requires the removal of 5G equipment from Chinese suppliers from local telecom operators. It is also stated that this restriction will be valid until 2026. Therefore, if it is put into effect, manufacturers such as Huawei and ZTE will be banned from yet another European country.
Huawei, on the other hand, says that such restrictions have a political basis. On the subject, Huawei Germany Corporate Communications Vice President Carsten Senz emphasized that the company has been used safely by German consumers for a long time, and argued that this decision would cause German telecom operators to face additional costs. Therefore, we will have to wait a while longer to see whether these concerns are answered.