BT Misses Deadline to Remove China’s Huawei From Network Core

BT has missed an end-of-year deadline for removing Huawei equipment from its network core, though it claims to have completed over 99 percent of the transfer.

People arrive to attend the Huawei keynote address at the IFA 2020 Special Edition consumer electronics and appliances trade fair on the fair's opening day in Berlin on Sept. 03, 2020. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

BT has missed the end-of-year deadline for removing Huawei equipment from its network core, although the telecommunications provider said it has completed 99 percent of the transfer.

Under a government ban of Huawei equipment after the United States sanctioned the Chinese telecommunications giant, British operators were given various deadlines to remove Huawei gears from various parts of their networks, including removing Huawei equipment from the network core by Dec. 31, 2023, and from 5G networks by the end of 2027.