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Huawei Chooses France, But Will France Choose Huawei?

Pro-European Le Maire added that it would efits than any previous generation of mobile
be “perfectly understandable” to favor Euro- technology.
pean 5G equipment suppliers, namely Nokia There is a lot of money on the table, and
and Ericsson. “When we have two European much at stake, for mobile companies willing
5G suppliers with quality equipment, it to compete. 5G is indeed expected to account
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5G equipment from Nokia and Ericsson. by telecom-industry lobby group GSMA,
Bouygues Telecom, however, has been col- which represents the interests of 750 mobile
laborating with Huawei since 2012 on 4G and operators. Aspencore Media GmbH
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was one of the first operators worldwide to GSMA, however, assessed that excluding 85560 Ebersberg / Germany
conduct field trials of 5G technology in real Huawei and ZTE from Europe’s rollout of EDITORIAL MANAGEMENT
conditions in Bordeaux. 5G telecom networks would cost European Bolaji Ojo, Global Editor-in-Chief,
There has been rising discontent within mobile operators up to €55 billion. Nokia and bolaji.ojo@aspencore.com
Junko Yoshida, Global Co-Editor-in-Chief,
the ranks of French telecom operators since Ericsson simply don’t have the capacity to junko.yoshida@aspencore.com
French parliamentarians voted on a new law address migration from 3G and 4G networks Jürgen Hübner, Managing Editor,
to give the government the power to control to 5G, and Europe risks to lose ground in this j.hubner@aspencore.com
Anne-Françoise Pelé, Editor-in-Chief,
the rollout of 5G networks and infrastructure. race. eetimes.eu; afpele@aspencore.com
Under the law, the telecom operators must With the U.S. turning its back on Huawei, Brian Santo, Editor-in-Chief, eetimes.com
Echo Zhao, Chief Analyst, echo.zhao@aspencore.com
seek formal permission from the French prime Europe has become a major battleground. Judith Cheng, Managing Editor,
minister for their network projects. The pro- Building a European 5G factory in France Judith.cheng@aspencore.com
cess is burdensome, and operators are afraid is well-played, but Huawei has not won the CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
George Leopold, gleopold@gmail.com
it might delay rollouts. game yet. Ann Thryft, athryft@earthlink.net
Neither Huawei nor ZTE is mentioned, but We don’t know exactly what the word STAFF CORRESPONDENTS
there’s no doubt that the law targets both “restrictions” encompasses and if France Matthew Burgess, matthew.burgess@aspencore.com
Chinese equipment providers. It is commonly is not just being too politically correct to Anthea Chuang, anthea.chuang@aspencore.com
Nitin Dahad, nitin.dahad@aspencore.com
known as the Huawei Law. say no. ■ Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio,
5G will transform the way we live and maurizio.dipaolo@aspencore.com
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work. Connecting everyone and everything, it Anne-Françoise Pelé is editor-in-chief of Amy Guan, amy.guan@aspencore.com
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