Huawei says it’s working with Telecom Italia despite 5G exclusion: Report

MILAN (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies is working with Telecom Italia despite being shut out of a recent tender to supply new generation 5G technology, the chairman of the Chinese group’s Italian unit said in a newspaper interview.

Luigi De Vecchis said Telecom Italia’s (TIM) recent decision to exclude Huawei from supplying new generation 5G services was a “commercial” decision, unlike in Britain where he said the Chinese telecoms group’s exclusion from 5G services was a “geopolitical, not a technological decision”.

“We respect the decision (by TIM), which is of a commercial not a political nature, that concerns one of the many parts of the network,” De Vecchis said in an interview with Corriere Economia, the weekly business magazine of Corriere della Sera, published on Monday.