Interesting in Ireland
I note in Ireland the three infrastructural networks seem to have rather less spectacularly dropped Huawei.
Vodafone Ireland - All Ericsson.
3 Ireland (bought O2 and merged) - Was assumed to be going with Huawei, now going with Ericsson.
Eir - Ericsson core (they keep stressing this) and Huawei RAN only.
I'm a bit baffled as to why we're fussing over 5G when you consider that in Ireland and Britain Huawei gear is heavily installed, at the very least in access networks for VDSL / FTTC and FTTH. Their equipment was hugely popular with telcos, including the old incumbents, BT in the UK and Eir in Ireland for their FTTx rollouts.
I'm not at all convinced by this hype about Huawei, but surely if there really were an issue the powers that be in the UK would be insisting on stripping out their gear from the fixed line broadband networks too?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
