"untrusted technology that could make the risk impossible to control" or similar phrasing was present in every single annual assessment of the Huawei deployment in the UK, they never said Huawei was safe(a few carrier executives said Huawei was safe, not the government). It's just that they had to deal with the lack of security while they secured the financial means to phase it out. Kudos to the UK for saying no in their financial situation, using non-Huawei 5G would mean isolating Huawei's segments in their 4G network because the hardware is incompatible between brands, unless they're emboldened by Open RAN? China's violation of the HK Joint Declaration probably played a part too.
Quote from: Tov on July 07, 2020, 08:49:03
Are they going back to 4G?
Ericsson and Nokia aren't more expensive than Huawei, the main reason Huawei could underbid is that China's policy banks hand out interest-free loans to go with every Huawei contract. In China carriers are more well off, so Huawei and ZTE don't even bother to underbid and still win >80% of the market because China's carriers are state-controlled and the Party orders them to buy Huawei and ZTE, leaving a symbolic slice of the market for international "competition" to pretend that they're running a market economy.