1.媒體來源: 路透
2.記者署名: Douglas Busvine
3.完整新聞標題:
Europe telecoms lobby group 'denounces' bans on Chinese vendors
4.完整新聞內文:
A business group representing challenger telecoms operators in Europe warned on
Friday against banning Chinese equipment vendors, saying that doing so for polit
ical reasons would force up costs and delay network upgrades.
In a strongly-worded statement, the European Competitive Telecommunications Asso
ciation (ECTA), said it “denounces any bans of Chinese 5G suppliers for geopoli
tical reasons and emphasises that such decisions can only be justified on the ba
sis of well-established facts”.
ECTA groups alternative telecoms such as Germany’s 1&1 Drillisch, Iliad of Fran
ce and Spain’s Masmovil. China’s Huawei Technologies, the global networks mark
et leader, is also on board.
Huawei’s position in Europe has come under pressure from a U.S. campaign to pur
ge next-generation networks of kit that Washington says can be used for spying -
claims that the Chinese company denies.
ECTA’s statement comes after France imposed restrictions on Huawei equipment th
at sources familiar with the matter said amounted to a de-facto ban.
Politics also loomed large over last week’s decision by Orange Belgium and Prox
imus to replace Huawei with Nokia as provider of radio access network gear for t
heir shared 5G network in Belgium.
ECTA’s General Director Luc Hindryckx told Reuters the statement reflected conc
erns of member CEOs that the adoption of a common EU approach to assessing vendo
r risk - known as the Toolbox - was leading more and more member countries to im
pose “actual or de-facto bans” on Chinese vendors.
The exclusion of Huawei and ZTE, another Chinese vendor, would leave telecoms wi
th a choice of just three suppliers - the other global players are Nokia, Ericss
on and Samsung.
“A reduction in the number of worldwide suppliers from five to three will not o
nly impact the telecoms sector by increasing costs, negatively impacting perform
ance, delaying the deployment of 5G networks and constraining innovation potenti
al,” ECTA said.
Industry consultant John Strand challenged that view, however, saying that Nordi
c operators Telenor, Telia and TDC had ripped and replaced Chinese equipment “w
ithout increasing cost”.
簡翻: (ECTA) 歐洲電信競業聯盟(嗯?含華
為)參與者包括德.西.法的部分電信業者。
其主席公開痛斥排除華為的行為，將導致
不公平競爭.成本上升，及後續5G升級步
調變慢，這聲明發在法國決定加速汰除華
為設備之後
諾基亞.愛利信已基本拿下英.西.比等國的
主要電信合約
面對該指摘，有顧問指出，從北歐電信商
的汰除華為經驗來看，基本沒增加什麼成
本
5.完整新聞連結 (或短網址):
https://tinyurl.com/y2gy6vrl
6.備註:
13億非洲人單還是妥妥的，加上巴鐵兒，吉
爾吉斯.蒙古等固有疆域，還是有半壁江山