India has decided to keep Huawei from 5G rollout plans, the Sputnik reported citing sources in the electronics and information technology ministry.
The decision was made at a high-level meeting chaired by IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, marking a U-turn on India's previously announced plans to allow all vendors to join trials for the technology.
"Huawei is out of all, no 5G trial will be for Huawei", sources told Sputnik.
Final call, however, will lie with the office of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the report noted.
The move comes as mounting India-China border tensions expand into trade.
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to begin phasing out the use of Huawei’s technology in the country’s 5G network as soon as this year, The Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday.
UK PM to phase out Huawei's 5G role within months, report says
The move comes after U.K.’s spy agency GCHQ raised new security fears over Huawei's technology.
A report prepared by GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre concludes that new U.S. sanctions on Huawei will force the company to use untrusted technology that could make the risk impossible to control, the newspaper said.
