China Mobile didn’t even invite Ericsson and Nokia to its latest 5G tender

China seems to have decided not to even bother inviting foreign companies to bid on telecoms work anymore.
It’s hard to draw any other conclusion from the news that China Mobile only invited Huawei and ZTE to bid on the contract for its converged 4G/5G core, according to reports from Light Reading and Gizmochina. China Mobile itself doesn’t seem to have published anything and both stories seem to rely on a Chinese language report, so details may be lost in translation, such as the to