US clean chit to Jio

Calling Orange in France, Jio in India and Telstra in Australia as “clean telcos” for refusing to do business with firms from China, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has claimed that Chinese tech giant Huawei’s deals with telecommunications operators around the world are “evaporating”.

“The world’s leading telecom operators – including Spain’s Telefonica, as well as Orange, O2, Jio, Bell Canada, Telus, and Rogers, and many more – are becoming clean telcos… (They are) disconnecting from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) infrastructure,” Pompeo told reporters at a news conference here on Wednesday.

They are rejecting doing business with tools of the CCP surveillance, including companies like Huawei, he said, adding that the tide is turning against the Chinese tech company.