I read the article some highlights from that I posted before, posting again here :
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Citing unidentified government sources,
Reuters said scrutiny of a vendor's governance and technology would be extended to 5G radio access networks (RAN), in addition to the 5G core.
Reuters noted German officials say that while the UK has formally banned Huawei and France will informally exclude it, Germany will effectively strangle it in red tape.
"The final outcome is the same," one senior security official told the news agency.
The compromise is now expected to be drafted into a legal text, and reviewed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet in November, according to Handelsblatt.
US authorities are now using the word "clean" to describe foreign networks that are free of Chinese influence.
José María Álvarez-Pallete López, Telefónica's CEO, has since confirmed that Telefónica Spain and O2 (UK) "are fully clean networks, and Telefónica Deutschland (Germany) and Vivo (Brazil) will be in the near future without equipment from any untrusted vendors."
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