Huawei Poised to Get Go-Ahead for U.K.’s 5G Networks Tuesday

  • Government to decide on Chinese supplier’s role in broadband
  • Johnson weighs national security against best technology

Huawei Mate 30 smartphone

Photographer: Michaela Handrek-Rehle/Bloomberg
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Boris Johnson is preparing to defy President Trump’s demand to ban Huawei Technologies Co. from the U.K.’s fifth-generation telecommunications networks, in a decision that risks an angry backlash from within his own ruling Conservative Party.