Huawei's kit removed from emergency services 4G network
BT has confirmed that equipment made by Huawei is being removed from the heart of a communication system being developed for the UK's police forces and other emergency services. It follows a statement from BT earlier this month that it was swapping out the Chinese firm's kit from the "core" of its 3G and 4G mobile networks.
The Sunday Telegraph was first to report the latest development. It said the move could extend work on the late-running £2.3bn project.
BT is covering the cost of the switch. It does not believe the changeover will lead to a further delay.
See also: Defying US crackdown, Huawei ships a record 200 million smartphones in 2018
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @03:06AM
Most people know of Nokia through their mobile handsets, but their real big money has always been more in telecommunications equipment, which is why when they divested that division of theirs to Microsoft a few years back it was not such a big deal for them. They are actually a serious enough player that they are now the owners of Bell Labs, now known as Nokia Bell Labs [bell-labs.com]. Ericsson was in a similar position back in the day but they got out of the consumer handset business a lot sooner, after briefly getting into bed with Sony to do it, and now Sony's playing in that arena on its own. But go into any telecom data centre anywhere in the world and you'll probably see a lot of equipment in there with 'Ericsson' on it. They even invented a programming language, Erlang [erlang.org] (short for "Ericsson Language"), specifically for the software requirements of their telecom switches. Huawei is the same. Everyone knows all about their phones, but just as with Nokia and Ericsson, they have even bigger money in telecom equipment. Their sale of 200 million smartphones is probably just a small consolation to them after their even bigger losses in the telecom equipment market.