Japanese Mobile Carrier SoftBank Rejects Huawei, Chooses Nokia and Ericsson for 5G Network

People walk in front of a shop of Japan's telecoms giant SoftBank in Tokyo, Japan, on Nov. 23, 2018. Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images

Softbank, a Japanese telecom company, has now officially excluded its long-time supplier and Chinese tech giant Huawei for its 5G deployment in Japan.

Nokia and Ericsson have been chosen instead as the “primary partners” for the next-generation wireless network 5G, according to two separate press releases by the two Scandinavian companies.