UK virtue signals to US over telecoms plurality and security

The UK government has announced a bunch of aspirations to do with mobile networks that are apparently designed to show the US it’s being a good ally.
As if to illustrate what a dilettante it is when it comes to the telecoms dark arts, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport issued a press release ostensibly about security that led with a commitment to switch off 2G and 3G by 2033. The more substantial announcement, and the real story, concerns OpenRAN, which was buried halfway