Germany Tells America to Verpissen Off Over Huawei 5G Cyber-Sicherheitsbedenken

UK and Germany have both decided not to follow the US on this issue.

Huawei has been under silent scrutiny in the EU for a decade. Several EU countries, intelligence agencies and operators have inspected and monitored Huawei's hardware, software and traffic they generate and nothing has been found. It seems that the US intelligence has nothing either. They are naturally suspicious–as they should be–and understand the potential systemic risk, but have not found any clear evidence.

Buying base stations from Huawei is very manageable risk. Buying operating services or the most critical mobile networks management hardware and software is separate question. Some operators in Europe have made silent decision (= not declaring it publicly) to avoid buying certain things from China while allowing Huawei to compete in most of the infrastructure, like base stations and mobile phones etc.