The French government will not implement a total ban on the use of equipment from Chinese vendor Huawei in the rollout of 5G networks, but it will encourage local operators not to use such equipment, French paper Les Echos reported Guillaume Poupard, the head of French cybersecurity agency ANSSI, as saying.
“What I can say is that there won’t be a total ban. [But] for operators that are not currently using Huawei, we are encouraging them not to go for it,” Poupard reportedly said.
