EU Praises Region’s ‘Progress’ Restricting High-Risk 5G Vendors
- Report follows intensifying U.S. pressure to ban Huawei
- France is following U.K. with effective ban on Chinese vendor
A sign advertising 5G network-enable phones sits on display inside a mobile phone store, in Reading.
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The European Union praised “good progress” in tackling risky suppliers of core fifth-generation mobile network equipment and called on other member states to follow suit.
With countries in the region under intensifying U.S. pressure to ban China’s Huawei Technologies Co., the bloc published a report on Friday that assessed how well governments were reducing security risks in the shift to 5G.