BT: We need more time to excise Huawei from our network

Facing increasing pressure from the US over national security fears, back in January 2020 the UK government initially ruled that Huawei’s market share in the UK’s mobile networks would need to be reduced to just 35%. At the time, BT said that the process of removing and replacing the Huawei equipment in its networks would take years and cost them roughly £500 million.Later that same year, however, the UK government took the decision to ban Huawei more broadly…read