Canada bans 5G equipment from Chinese Huawei, ZTE


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OTTAWA-Canada said on Thursday that it had purchased equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. will ban from being used in the country’s next-generation 5G mobile network, after a nearly four-year security review that was disrupted by geopolitical tensions between Ottawa and Beijing. With the decision, Canada is the latest member of the Five Eyes – an intelligence-sharing network made up of English-speaking allies Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US – to weigh in on the use of China-made telecommunications equipment in 5G. The latest-generation mobile network will form the basis for self-driving cars and...