1.媒體來源: 路透
2.記者署名:
Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm, Mathieu Rosemain in Paris, Douglas Busvine in B
erlin and Humeyra Pamuk in Washington D.C., additional reporting by Foo Yun Chee
3.完整新聞標題:
Huawei ousted from heart of EU as Nokia wins Belgian 5G contracts
4.完整新聞內文:
Orange and Proximus have picked Nokia to help build 5G networks in Belgium as th
ey drop Huawei amid U.S. pressure to exclude the Chinese firm from supplying key
telecoms equipment.
The moves are among the first by commercial operators in Europe to drop Huawei f
rom next-generation networks and come after months of diplomatic pressure from W
ashington, which alleges Huawei equipment could be used by Beijing for spying.
The Belgian capital Brussels is home to the NATO alliance and the European Union
's executive and parliament, making it a matter of particular concern for U.S. i
ntelligence agencies.
"Belgium has been 100% reliant on Chinese vendors for its radio networks - and p
eople working at NATO and the EU were making mobile phone calls on these network
s," said John Strand, an independent Danish telecoms consultant.
"The operators are sending a signal that it's important to have access to safe n
etworks."
The United States welcomed the decisions by Orange Belgium and Proximus, which h
ave a network sharing agreement.
"This is the latest example of evaporating Huawei deals and further confirmation
of this worldwide momentum towards trusted vendors," said Keith Krach, the U.S.
undersecretary at the State Department for economic growth, energy and the envi
ronment.
Huawei [HWT.UL], the world's biggest telecoms equipment supplier, strongly denie
s the U.S. allegations and has been highly critical of calls to ban it from 5G c
ontracts.
However, it said on Friday it accepted the decisions by Orange Belgium and Proxi
mus, which confirmed an earlier Reuters exclusive.
"This is the outcome of a tender organised by operators and the result of the fr
ee market," a Huawei spokesman said.
"We embrace fair competition, the more diversified a supply chain the more compe
titive it becomes," he said, adding Huawei had been supplying equipment in Belgi
um for more than a decade and its commitment remained unchanged.
The decisions leave Liberty Group's Telenet as the only mobile carrier in Belgiu
m yet to say which supplier it will use for its next mobile networks. Telenet cu
rrently relies on equipment made by China's ZTE, and plans to announce its 5G de
cision in the first half of 2021, a spokeswoman said.
CLOSER SCRUTINY
The deals to supply radio gear to Orange Belgium and Proximus are a boost for No
kia, which struggled to make headway in the 5G market earlier this year even as
Huawei was under pressure.
"I have tried to become RAN (radio access network) supplier to Orange Belgium si
nce 2003 when the company was still Mobistar. Here we are, finally," tweeted Tom
mi Uitto, president of Nokia Mobile Networks.
The companies did not disclose a value for the contracts.
Nokia shares were up 3% in afternoon trading.
Orange Belgium and Proximus said Ericsson would supply the core of their 5G netw
orks, a smaller slice of business.
EU members have been stepping up scrutiny of so-called high-risk vendors. This s
ubjects Huawei's governance and technology to critical examination and is likely
to lead other European operators to strip it from their networks, analysts say.
Nokia and Ericsson have been the main beneficiaries of the challenges facing Hua
wei. From Bell Canada and Telus Corp in Canada to BT in Britain, the Nordic comp
anies have been grabbing market share from the Chinese firm.
Separately, Nokia said it had won a contract to provide data management software
to Telefonica UK, which said the Finnish firm would replace the less than 1% of
Huawei kit in its network.
比利時做為北約和歐盟的主辦事處，過去
，在基地台零組件卻長期使用華為設備。
目前，最大的Orange和Proximus已和
Nokia簽約進行5G設備汰換，尚未表態的
Telenet將在2021做出決定
諾基亞和愛利信在美中之戰中大有展獲，
目前已基本拿下英.加.西班牙的合約
5.完整新聞連結 (或短網址):
https://tinyurl.com/y4f3vwb8
6.備註:
美帝國主義用政治干預自由市場經濟，打
壓華為，這種做生意就得跪的行徑，中華
民族難道不會覺得毛毛的嗎？