Germany increases scrutiny on telecom network vendors, aims to keeps Huawei out
While Britain has banned Huawei, France is likelly to informally exclude it, and Germany aims to effectively strangle it in red tape.
While Britain has banned Huawei, France is likelly to informally exclude it, and Germany aims to effectively strangle it in red tape.
While many proposals have called for the government to sell its stake in Deutsche Telekom and utilise the proceeds thereof for upgrading its broadband infrastructure, Merkel’s party is confident that Germany’s economy is strong enough to support a separate 5G network, in addition to its fibre-optic broadband network.
Unperturbed by the collapse of the mega deal between T-Mobile US and Sprint Corp, Deutsche Telekom’s third quarter earnings have beaten analysts’ expectations.
5G technology will first be rolled out in Japan and South Korea in 2018, followed quickly by the U.S. In 2020 5G technology will be launched in Europe.