Greenland chooses Ericsson over Huawei for 5G rollout

Greenland has picked Sweden’s Ericsson over China’s Huawei to supply apparatus for a fifth-generation (5G) telecoms network, state telecoms user Tele Greenland pronounced on Thursday.

The preference comes as a United States is pulling allies to bar Huawei from 5G deals, and after President Donald Trump offered to buy Greenland from Denmark in Aug as partial of a broader vital pull into a Arctic.

“5G is entrance to Greenland, though no date has been set for this yet. We do not see Huawei as a probable retailer of (Tele Greenland’s) 5G network,” a Chief Executive Kristian Reinert Davidsen told broadcaster KNR.

His comments were reliable to Reuters by a Tele Greenland spokeswoman.

A Huawei mouthpiece in Denmark pronounced a association was not wakeful of any skeleton for 5G rollout in Greenland.

“Huawei has no mobile network business in Greenland and had no skeleton to attend in any 5G rollout in Greenland,” she said.

‘I can’t contend if one is safer than a other’

Tele Greenland’s preference had been done after deliberation issues like “quality, cost and confidence in a broadest sense,” a company’s authority Stine Bosse told Reuters.

Ericsson, that final week was picked by Norway’s Telenor as a pivotal record provider of a country’s 5G network, also granted Greenland’s 4G network.

“It’s tough to contend that network is best,” Davidsen told KNR. “We only found that Ericsson was a right choice for us formed on all a parameters. It was from an altogether indicate of view, and we can’t contend if one is safer than a other.”

A mouthpiece for a Swedish association declined to criticism on destiny skeleton for 5G rollout in Greenland, though pronounced Tele Greenland is “an critical customer” and that a stream 4G network in Greenland is formed on Ericsson’s 5G prepared products.

Fearing high-tech espionage, and battling with China over trade, a United States has pushed allies to bar Huawei from remunerative 5G deals. Huawei has denied a apparatus can be used for spying.

Earlier this year, secretly hold Danish telecoms user TDC also picked Ericsson over Huawei for a 5G network. TDC pronounced it was a blurb decision, though that it “was not blind” to widespread concerns about Huawei and information security.

Article source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/greenland-ericsson-huawei-5g-1.5402788?cmp=rss