Jung Min-ho has worked as a staff writer at The Korea Times since 2012, mostly covering social and political issues. He currently belongs to the Politics & City Desk where he covers topics such as health, labor and human rights. Prior to joining the team, he was responsible for covering North Korea and sports. His article about a biosecurity breach of Middle East respiratory syndrome won him an award from the Korea Science Journalists Association in 2016. He is also the co-author of the book, "Medical Pioneers of Korea" (2019). He served as the head of the international relations committee at the Journalists Association of Korea from 2021 to 2023.
India excludes Huawei and ZTE from 5G trials
India is the latest country to exclude Huawei. / Reuters
By Jung Min-ho
By Jung Min-ho
India has excluded Huawei and ZTE from participating in trials to speed up 5G technology in the country amid security concerns surrounding the Chinese telecoms equipment providers.
Local media reported Friday that the Department of Telecommunications has asked Samsung, Cisco, Ericsson and Nokia to be project partners for the trials.
“We have excluded Huawei from these trials,” the Economic Times, an Indian business daily, quoted telecom secretary Aruna Sundararajan as saying.
The paper reported that the department also did not reach out to ZTE.
India's government is planning to showcase India-specific 5G use cases by early 2019.
On the same day, SK Telecom, Korea's No. 1 mobile operator, said it has selected Samsung, Ericsson and Nokia as its preferred bidders for 5G equipment over Huawei.
All this comes after the United States and Australia acted against the Chinese companies due to cyber-espionage concerns.
Last month, the Australian government decided to ban the two from its 5G roll-outs. Before that, all U.S. government agencies had been barred from buying any technology from them.