According to the Chief Architect of BT, Huawei's 5G technology is so far ahead of Nokia and Ericsson they are not even contenders: https://www.lightreading.com

According to the Chief Architect of BT, Huawei's 5G technology is so far ahead of Nokia and Ericsson they are not even contenders: https://www.lightreading.com/mobile/5g/bts-mcrae-huawei-is-the-only-true-5g-supplier-right-now/d/d-id/747734 https://www.lightreading.com/mobile/5g/bts-mcrae-huawei-is-t... For Europeans, they have to balance the possibility of Chinese espionage against the certainty that the US and UK are already doing it: * https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/02/wikileaks-us-spied-on-angela-merkels-ministers-too-says-german-newspaper https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/02/wikileaks-us-s... * https://theintercept.com/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-inside-story/ https://theintercept.com/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-insid... In that light, Huawei equipment that the Chinese government tries to make as immune to the 5 Eyes as possible may actually be preferable. Granted, neither Nokia nor Ericsson are US companies or subject to direct US pressure the way, say, Lucent would have been, or Cisco is, but the US has suborned equipment makers in neutral countries before, as with Crypto AG: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33676028 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33676028