Germany’s regulator will not exclude Huawei from 5G contracts

Germany’s telecoms regulator Bundesnetzagentur confirmed that Chinese vendor Huawei will not be excluded from 5G contracts in the country, the Financial Times reported Jochen Homann, the president of the agency, as saying. “The position the Bundesnetzagentur takes is that no equipment supplier, including Huawei, should, or may, be specifically excluded.”  The U.S. government has been recently urging European governments to ban Huawei infrastructure from their 5G networks, arguing that the Chinese authorities could use the vendor’s technology to conduct espionage. The Trump administration had warned it could limit the sharing of intelligence information with Germany if it does not exclude Huawei from its 5G infrastructure, arguing that Chinese equipment could help Chinese authorities spy on Western companies and governments.“The Bundesnetzagentur has not received any concrete indications against Huawei. Nor are we aware of any other body in Germany that has received any reliable indications,” Homann added.