France’s crackdown on Chinese telecommunications equipment provider huawei has escalated! Foreign news quoted sources pointed out that, in addition to remote areas of France, French telecommunications providers have begun to remove such as Toulouse (Toulouse), Toulon (Toulon), Rennes (Rennes) and Brest (Brest) and other major cities of Huawei 4G wireless communications equipment, because Huawei equipment and other suppliers of 5G equipment is not compatible.
It is understood that the dismantling work began at the beginning of this year, when the French Constitutional Council (Constitutional Council) signed a ruling forcing telecommunications providers to remove densely populated areas that are being upgraded to 5G network Huawei equipment. Sources pointed out that some Huawei equipment can be transferred to areas with government exemptions, but some must be scrapped.
The telecoms provider, including France’s second largest telecoms provider “SFR”, which is owned by Altice Europe, and Bouygues Telecom, have also started to remove Huawei’s wireless equipment from major French cities. In fact, Bouygues Telecom revealed as early as last year that the company had to remove Huawei equipment from 3,000 telecommunications towers and replace it with Ericsson equipment by 2028, while Altice Europe is switching its equipment to Nokia.
As for other French telecommunications providers such as Orange and Iliad SA, they are using Nokia and Ericsson equipment.
The French National Network Security Agency (ANSSI) said last year that it would allow telecommunications providers to use equipment including Huawei under a license of three to eight years, but if the license of telecommunications operators using Huawei 5G equipment expires, they cannot renew their licenses. However, Huawei still opened a research center in Paris, France, last year, and said last December that it would open its first production plant outside China in Brumath, eastern France, in 2023.
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