Sweden pushes ahead with 5G network building without Huawei amid icy relation with China

Stockholm: Amid deteriorating relations with China, Sweden has decided to build its own 5G Network without Chinese firm Huawei.

The decision to exclude Huwaei was taken in line with the latest public opinion polls in Sweden, which called for advancing human rights and democratic reform in China as the highest policy priority.

The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) said on Friday it would resume its next-generation telecoms auctions next month after an appeals court upheld an October decision to ban Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE from its networks on security grounds.