BT removing Huawei equipment from parts of 4G network

Head of MI6 had questioned Chinese firm's involvement in UK telecoms infrastructure

BT has confirmed it is removing Huawei equipment from key areas of its 4G network as concerns are raised about the Chinese firm's presence in critical telecoms infrastructure.

The company said the removals were merely the continuation of a policy which began when it purchased the mobile phone carrier EE in 2015, to ensure that both parts of the combined network ran on the same technology. Many peripheral parts of BT and EE's systems still run on Huawei equipment, and there were no plans to alter that.