Germany to Ban Huawei From Future 6G Network in Sovereignty Push
Employees wait for visitors at the Huawei stand during the IFA Consumer Electronics Show in Berlin.
Photographer: Jacobia Dahm/BloombergGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Chinese suppliers such as Huawei Technologies Co. will be excluded from the country’s future telecommunication networks on security grounds as he pushes for more digital sovereignty.
“We have decided within the government that everywhere it’s possible we’ll replace components, for example in the 5G network, with components we have produced ourselves,” Merz told a business conference in Berlin on Thursday. “And we won’t allow any components from China in the 6G network.”