Bell CEO says Huawei may be used for non-core wireless infrastructure following Ottawa decision

Bong'due south CEO George Cope said he believes the carrier will exist able to use Huawei equipment to build out 5G networks when Ottawa completes its review of Huawei and 5G networks.

In an interview with The World and Mail, Cope stated that Huawei equipment is condom to exist used in not-core parts of its network. The cadre is the virtually sensitive part of the network and every bit of now Bell, as well as Telus, have confirmed they do not use Huawei equipment.

"In the end, on Huawei, my instincts would be that information technology will exist [banned in] the core, which is what nearly of the other countries are talking about," Cope said. "We've always supported that view because that's been our view since nosotros started to apply Huawei."

Public Safety Government minister Ralph Goodale did note that a decision regarding the 5G review and potentially on Huawei will exist revealed before the next federal election.

Huawei currently provides equipment to Bell and Telus related to 3G and 4G LTE networks and has had a presence in Canada since 2008.

As of at present the U.South. and Australia have barred the Shenzhen-based company from participating in providing 5G technology and terminal November, New Zealand's spy agency told domestic companies to stop using Huawei'south technology.

The United Kingdom and Canada are the only two countries of the group that have not made a conclusion concerning Huawei. It should be noted that the 5 countries are part of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance.

The U.S. has been lobbying the countries to ban Huawei due to cybersecurity concerns because it believes Huawei volition employ its equipment to spy on behalf of the Chinese government.

Reports coming out of the U.Grand. a couple of weeks agone betoken that the country plans to apply Huawei to build out portions of its 5G network system just merely the parts that aren't considered its cadre network.

"We know what the U.S. is going to exercise," Cope said concerning banning Huawei. "I think what's changed a little scrap is people are looking at it quite seriously in Europe and proverb peradventure it is core versus not-cadre."

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Source: The World and Post