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Germany plans to ban some Chinese 5G components
    2023-03-08  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

GERMANY plans to ban some Chinese components in the country’s fifth-generation (5G) wireless network, the Zeit newspaper reported yesterday, as heightened geopolitical tensions push the country’s lawmakers to unwind an Angela Merkel-era compromise.

German telecom operators will be banned from using certain telecom parts produced by Shenzhen-based Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp., the newspaper said, citing unidentified sources in the German government.

“Restrictions of an always reliable manufacturer with a very good security record are certainly not part of making infrastructures more secure,” Patrick Berger, a Huawei spokesman in Germany, yesterday said by email.

A German Interior Ministry spokesman declined to comment on the report, and a spokesperson for ZTE did not immediately comment.

Germany is taking a harder line on critical network infrastructure after its government said last month it doesn’t know how prevalent Chinese equipment is in its mobile systems.

The move comes as the United States is reviewing existing licenses for exporting items to Huawei.

Unlike many European Union countries, Germany originally avoided an outright ban of Huawei 5G technology in the face of U.S. pressure to cut out Chinese infrastructure providers. Instead, the government decided all components for the 5G network deemed “critical IT infrastructure” need to be certified by the authorities.

The decision to ban some components comes as pressure on Berlin to act has steadily increased.

In November, the European Union’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager said countries need to phase out the use of “high-risk” 5G suppliers “as a matter of urgency.”

The United States has spearheaded efforts dating back to the Trump administration to limit Huawei’s reach based on “security” grounds.

Huawei is already subject to U.S. trade restrictions. EU countries, including Sweden, Bulgaria and Greece, have limited Huawei’s role in their 5G infrastructure.

But the bloc’s “toolbox” to enable countries to stop using “risky vendors” is non-binding and allows countries and businesses to set their own policy. (SD-Agencies)

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