EU increases pressure on members over ‘high risk’ telecoms vendors

Commissioner Breton has publicly called for EU countries to accelerate their replacement of high risk vendors from their 5G networks.
Speaking at an event organised by French telco group Orange, EU Commissioner in charge of the internal market Thierry Breton addressed a number of issued affecting the bloc’s telecoms sector. On the matter of ‘high risk’ (essentially a euphemism for ‘Chinese’ in this context, which principally means Huawei) vendors, he was especially