Huawei, the Chinese telecoms company, is to be banned from supplying new equipment for the UK’s 5G mobile phone networks from December 31, in a big U-turn by Boris Johnson’s government.
The UK prime minister’s National Security Council agreed on Tuesday that existing Huawei equipment must also be stripped from 5G networks by 2027 — a slower timetable than that demanded by some Tory MPs.
Just hours before the decision was announced John Browne, the chairman of Huawei’s UK board, said he would step down from the position in September. Lord Browne, who ran BP between 1995 and 2007, spent five years as Huawei’s first independent chairman.
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