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EU mobile operators may be forced to restrict ‘high-risk’ vendors in networks

By Matthew Newman and Luca Bertuzzi ( June 4, 2025, 14:12 GMT | Insight) -- EU mobile telecom operators may be obliged by EU governments to restrict “high-risk” suppliers of telecom equipment, such as Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE, from their telecom networks, the EU’s digital chief said today. Henna Virkkunen’s comments follow a call by EU legislators to make the EU toolbox for 5G security “a legally binding instrument.”EU mobile telecom operators may be obliged by EU governments to restrict "high-risk" vendors of telecom equipment, such as Huawei and ZTE, from their telecom networks, the EU’s digital chief said today....

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