Agreement was signed on sidelines of meeting between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin in Moscow Huawei will work with Russian telecoms company MTS to develop network over the next year Huawei has been in turmoil since the Trump administration banned US companies from selling hi-tech equipment to the Chinese telecoms giant over suspicions it is spying for Beijing.
China’s Huawei, considered a security threat in the US, signed a deal on Wednesday with telecoms company MTS to develop a 5G network in Russia over the next year.
The agreement was signed on the sidelines of a meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
The deal will see “the development of 5G technologies and the pilot launch of fifth-generation networks in 2019-2020”, MTS said in a statement.
Quoted in the statement, Guo Ping, deputy chairman of the board and rotating chairman of Huawei, said he was “very happy” with the agreement “in an area of strategic importance like 5G”.
The Chinese telecoms giant has been in turmoil since May, when the Trump administration banned US companies from selling hi-tech equipment to Huawei over suspicions it is spying for Beijing.
Experts say the US decision, to come into force within three months, threatens the survival of the company, which is highly dependent on US chips for its phones.
Several companies have already distanced themselves from Huawei, including Google, whose Android system equips the vast majority of smartphones in the world.
Huawei’s reported potential involvement in Britain’s 5G network has proved politically sensitive, and Prime Minister Theresa May’s government insists no decision has been made on the issue.
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