London | Britain has shrugged off pressure from its Five Eyes intelligence partners Australia and the US to ban Chinese telco Huawei from its 5G network, instead allowing the state-subsidised juggernaut to supply the British rollout.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government, which formally announced the plan on Tuesday after two years of indecision, concluded there simply weren't enough 5G equipment suppliers - a "market failure" - making it too costly to exclude Huawei completely.
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Hans van Leeuwen is international economy editor for The Telegraph UK. He was previously The Australian Financial Review’s Europe correspondent.
