Canada Has No Choice but to Bar Huawei From 5G Mobile Networks, Security Experts Say

Canada Has No Choice but to Bar Huawei From 5G Mobile Networks, Security Experts Say
A woman walks by a Huawei retail shop in Beijing on Oct. 11, 2020. AP Photo/Andy Wong, File
The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA—As the Liberal government prepares to unfurl its policy on next-generation mobile networks, global security experts say all signs point to the exclusion of Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies from the long-awaited blueprint.

The development of 5G, or fifth-generation, networks will give people speedier online connections and provide vast data capacity to meet ravenous demand as more and more things link to the internet and innovations such as virtual reality, immersive gaming and autonomous vehicles emerge.