Germany’s telecoms regulator has given the clearest signal yet that equipment maker Huawei will not be excluded from the country’s superfast 5G network, despite fierce pressure from the US to block the Chinese supplier for security reasons.
Jochen Homann, the president of the Bundesnetzagentur, or federal network agency, told the Financial Times: “The position the Bundesnetzagentur takes is that no equipment supplier, including Huawei, should, or may, be specifically excluded.”
Washington has repeatedly urged European governments to ban Huawei infrastructure from their 5G networks, arguing that Beijing could use the Chinese group’s technology to conduct espionage or cyber sabotage.