France is moving towards a de facto exclusion of the Chinese company Huawei from the mobile telecommunications networks.
According to Reuters, informed sources said that the French authorities have informed the telecom operators who intend to purchase Huawei equipment for the fifth generation technology that they will not be able to renew the equipment licenses when their deadlines come. .
France, like other countries in Europe, is paving the way for the market for the next generation of mobile communications in the midst of a growing geopolitical storm between two world superpowers.
The United States says the Chinese government can use the company's espionage equipment - a charge denied by Huawei and Beijing - and is pressuring its allies to stop it.
The French National Information Systems Security said this month that it would allow service operators to use equipment, including Huawei equipment, under licenses between three and eight years.
But she added that it appeals to telecommunications companies that do not currently use the equipment of the Chinese company to avoid using them.
Each service operator must apply for dozens of equipment licenses to cover different parts of the country.
The sources said that the authority had notified the operators of most of the decisions related to licenses for major cities.
She said that the majority of licenses granted to Huawei equipment are three or five years, while the majority of equipment of European competitors Ericsson and Nokia have licenses for eight years.
The decisions of the commission have not been announced, either on its part or on the part of companies.
The sources added that the French authorities have also notified operators during informal talks in recent months that the licenses granted for Huawei equipment will not be renewed later, but this was not officially mentioned in Documentation.
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