Embattled telecommunications equipment-maker, Huawei, may be losing favour in the west but it still has some friends out there, with Turkcell coming out in support of the Chinese company. Terzioglu, however, said security vulnerability claims against Huawei cannot be evaluated in isolation from current developments in the market. French connectionDespite a slew of European nations and US allies considering not buying Huawei 5G equipment, France's Senate yesterday rejected proposed legislation aimed at strengthening checks on telecoms equipment. The US is pushing allies to follow suit and keep Huawei out of planned 5G networks, and it seems to be workingJapan has already excluded Huawei from public procurement, and Australia and New Zealand effectively blocked Huawei from involvement in the rollout of their 5G network infrastructure. The UK, Canada, Germany, Poland, Norway and the Czech Republic are also assessing whether to exclude Huawei from forthcoming infrastructure rollouts.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 07, 2019 10:06 UTC