Europe moves to effectively ban Chinese vendors from members’ 5G networks

EU messaging around ‘high-risk’ vendors is looking increasingly like an outright ban on Huawei and ZTE, with pressure mounting on countries that have yet to remove them from their 5G networks.
The ‘EU toolbox on 5G cybersecurity’ is a set of guidelines adopted in 2020, which encouraged EU member states to assess the security of ‘high risk’ (Chinese) vendors in their networks. While it started out sounding more like recommendations, the rhetoric in an ‘up