A decision to give 5G infrastructure contracts to Huawei will be announced before Christmas, reports the Sunday Times.

The decision will be that Huawei switchgear can be used in “non-contentious” areas of the network.

Theresa May made a similar decision at a National Security Council meeting but it got leaked and created a Cabinet split.

“There have been further meetings about Huawei in recent days and the view that is forming is the same as the Theresa May view of the world, which was to allow them into the non-contentious parts of the network,” an unnamed government source told the newspaper.

The UK intelligence community is thought to be against allowing Huawei into the network and fears have been raised that bringing in Huawei will jeopardise UK membership of the Five Eyes information sharing group.

By: DocMemory
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