New Problems for Embattled Huawei in France, Germany

New Problems for Embattled Huawei in France, Germany
People walk past a Huawei shop in Beijing on Dec. 11, 2018. Thomas Peter/Reuters
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FRANKFURT/PARIS—Huawei faces fresh challenges in Europe after Germany’s Deutsche Telekom announced it would review its vendor strategy and Orange said it would not hire the Chinese firm to build its next-generation network in France.

The shift by the national market leaders, both partly state owned, follows Huawei’s exclusion on national security grounds by some U.S. allies, led by Australia, from building their fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks.