Britain will ban Huawei equipment from the country’s high-speed 5G network, the government said Tuesday, delivering a victory to the Trump administration, which has been pushing allies to eschew the Chinese technology giant.
The British government announced it would bar the purchase of new Huawei equipment for 5G networks beginning in December and ordered existing equipment to be removed from the networks by 2027, saying that Huawei created too high a risk for such a critical, multibillion-dollar project, but that imposing restrictions any faster would increase the risk to the security and resilience of the network.
“As facts have changed, so has our approach,” Oliver Dowden, the government minister in charge of telecommunications, told the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon. “This has not been an easy decision, but it is the right one for the U.K.’s telecoms networks, for our national security and our economy, both now and indeed in the long run.”
Critics of Huawei in the U.S. and abroad have called on countries to shun the firm, citing its close ties to the Chinese government as a security concern. They allege Beijing could use the company’s equipment for espionage or to disrupt telecommunications, though the company insists that is not the case.
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