In that light, Huawei equipment that the Chinese government tries to make as immune to the 5 Eyes as possible may actually be preferable.
Granted, neither Nokia nor Ericsson are US companies or subject to direct US pressure the way, say, Lucent would have been, or Cisco is, but the US has suborned equipment makers in neutral countries before, as with Crypto AG:
https://www.lightreading.com/mobile/5g/bts-mcrae-huawei-is-t...
For Europeans, they have to balance the possibility of Chinese espionage against the certainty that the US and UK are already doing it:
* https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/02/wikileaks-us-s...
* https://theintercept.com/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-insid...
In that light, Huawei equipment that the Chinese government tries to make as immune to the 5 Eyes as possible may actually be preferable.
Granted, neither Nokia nor Ericsson are US companies or subject to direct US pressure the way, say, Lucent would have been, or Cisco is, but the US has suborned equipment makers in neutral countries before, as with Crypto AG:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33676028