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.
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.
The sanctions have had a “severe” impact on the firm that significantly changes GCHQ’s calculations, the report said.
Officials are drawing up proposals to stop installing new Huawei equipment in the 5G network in as little as six months, and to speed up the removal of technology that is already in place, The Daily Telegraph reported.
