Nokia surpasses Huawei, Ericsson 5G contracts globally

Nokia says it has acquired more 5G contracts to surpass Huawei and Ericsson.

The visitor at present has 42 commercial 5G contracts, putting the Finnish visitor ahead of competitors Huawei and Ericsson, Frederico Guillen, Nokia's director, told Reuters.

Huawei has an estimated twoscore commercial contracts. Ericsson, meanwhile, has nineteen, viii of which are live.

Guillen said Nokia has seen increased interest from European countries that accept been debating whether or not to apply equipment from Chinese vendors in their networks.

"Where we are starting to see traction is in countries where there are debates," he said.

He added that many customers are thinking of using Nokia in more sensitive parts of the network, or the core.

"Information technology'southward a trivial early on to quantify that, just in recent weeks nosotros are starting to run across that happen," he said.

On June 4th, U.Thousand. Prime Government minister Theresa May's office said she volition speak to U.S. President Donald Trump on her country'southward position on Huawei.

In Canada, tensions with Huawei began in Dec when CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver. The U.Due south. has charged Meng, Huawei and subsidiary Skycom with 13 counts of banking concern and wire fraud. Huawei denies the accusations. Meng is expected to learn more of her extradition in court in September.

This comes after the U.S. ban of Huawei, leading several major U.S. companies, like Google, to break ties with the visitor. If y'all have a Huawei telephone, here'due south a break-down of what will happen in August with your phone in Canada.

Source: Reuters