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EU countries Need to diversify 5G suppliers, Commission


EU countries must take urgent action to diversify their 5G suppliers, the European Commission said, amid U.S. pressure on the bloc to follow Britain and ban China's Huawei from 5G networks.
Last year, the EU agreed to take a tough line on 5G suppliers to reduce cybersecurity risks to next-generation mobile networks, seen as key to boosting economic growth and competitiveness. strategy included reducing countries' and telecoms operators' dependency on one supplier. World No. 1 telecoms equipment maker Huawei competes with Finland's Nokia and Sweden's Ericsson.

Progress is urgently needed to mitigate the risk of dependency on high-risk suppliers, also with a view to reducing dependencies at (European) Union level, the EU executive said, reporting on the progress made by the 27 EU countries. Challenges have been identified in designing and imposing appropriate multi-vendor strategies for individual mobile network operator or at national level due to technical or operational difficulties, it said, citing the lack of interoperability or the size of the country as some of the problems. Commission also urged 13 EU countries to adopt the foreign direct investments screening mechanism without delay, a tool which allows EU governments to intervene in cases of foreign direct investment in strategic assets, especially if state-controlled or state-financed enterprises are involved.

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