Following approval to enter the German market, Huawei's 5G equipment will also be supplied to Norway's biggest wireless carrier, Telenor. Earlier, media reports said that Telenor would exclude Huawei from 5G construction.
Telenor will continue to use equipment from Chinese supplier Huawei in the construction of 5G networks, while adding Swedish Ericsson as a 5G supplier, according to Xinhua News Agency on Saturday.
Sigway Blake, President and CEO of Telenor, told a Telenor press conference on December 13 that the company will transform the network in the next 4 to 5 years. In the process, Telenor will continue to use the existing supplier Huawei Equipment to maintain 4G networks and upgrade some regions to 5G.
"Telenor has no reason to postpone cooperation with Huawei and looks forward to continuing cooperation with Huawei. We are very satisfied with the cooperation with Huawei." Blake said.
At the same time, Telenor announced that it will also add Ericsson as its 5G equipment supplier. "As the earliest 5G mobile network operator in Scandinavia, Telenor will increase the pace of 5G network deployment in 2020," said Boler Fulberg, CEO of Telenor Norway Subnet.
Telenor stated that the reason to maintain the two suppliers, Huawei and Ericsson, is that users' demand for data traffic is increasing year by year, and the entire network must be modernized. The transformation will be carried out simultaneously with the development of 5G, which will take about 4 to 5 years.
When asked if Huawei 5G equipment is needed to meet the above needs, Furberg replied: "In order to meet customer needs, the answer is yes. Given that this process takes 4 to 5 years, we need to ensure that all customers Have a good experience. "
Telenor is one of the major telecom operators in the Nordic region. It also operates in Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia and other countries, with more than 100 million users. The company has cooperated with Huawei for more than 10 years.
According to public information, on December 13, Norwegian Minister of Digital Affairs Nikola Astrup said in an interview with Norwegian online newspaper E24: "If an operator selects a supplier from a country or region that does not have security cooperation with Norway, The vendor โs equipment must not exceed half of the Norwegian base stations. "
A few days ago, Huawei's 5G equipment has been approved to enter the German market. It will provide 5G equipment and related technologies to Telefonica, one of Germany's three major telecommunications operators, in the next few years.
Telefonica said that construction of a 5G network will begin in 2020. It is expected to start and operate 5G commercial networks in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, and Frankfurt by the end of 2021. By the end of 2022, the 5G network will cover 30 cities and 16 million people.
Telefonica used to rely on Huawei in the past. It used Huawei's kit equipment in its 2G to 4G cores. Now it plans to use Huawei equipment in its 5G core network.
Prior to this, whether to allow Huawei equipment to enter the German 5G market has become one of the hot topics in German politics, and Germany's largest telecommunications operator Deutsche Telekom announced that it would replace all Huawei components with its core network within two years.
At the end of September this year, Huawei said that it had started producing 5G base stations without US parts. At present, Huawei has launched 5G cooperation with many countries, including the United Kingdom, Monaco, France, Malaysia, Russia, Cambodia and so on.
At present, Huawei's biggest competitor, Ericsson, has surpassed Huawei in 5G orders.
Data shows that so far Huawei has received 65 5G commercial orders worldwide, and global 5G base station shipments have exceeded 100,000, while Ericsson has received 75 5G commercial orders, surpassing Huawei's 10 and Huawei's 5G " The "dominant position" was not maintained, and the entire 5G ranking was refreshed again.
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