According to the reports, operators such as SFR and Bouygues Telecom, a subsidiary of Altice Europe NV in France, have begun to remove Huawei equipment in urban areas. Earlier, the French government decided to remove Huawei equipment from almost all areas, except for remote areas.
According to people familiar with the matter, this work began in early 2021, when the French Constitutional Council signed an order to force operators to dismantle Huawei equipment in densely populated areas, where networks are being upgraded to fifth-generation wireless technology. But unlike the United Kingdom and other countries, France is seeking to take a middle ground, allowing Huawei to continue as a supplier while excluding it from the core of the wireless infrastructure.
In July 2020, the head of the French National Cyber Security Agency stated that wireless operators using Huawei products will be provided with time-limited 5G exemptions. This decision means that the company’s products will be “phased out”. In order to be able to deploy new mobile networks, Altice and Bouygues have now begun to dismantle Huawei 4G equipment in many cities including Toulouse, Toulon, Rennes, and Brest, because this equipment is in line with other vendors they plan to install The 5G kit is not compatible.
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The two operators complained that the cost of the removal process was too high, it would take several years to complete, and it would hurt their competitiveness. Their two competitors, Orange SA and Iliad SA’s Free network use Nokia and Ericsson equipment in their respective networks. In terms of 5G supply, these operators will actually face a duopoly of Nordic companies.
Bouygues said last year that by 2028, the company must remove Huawei equipment from 3,000 towers and replace them with Ericsson equipment. And Altice will switch to Nokia. People familiar with the matter added that some equipment can be transferred to areas where these companies are exempt from the government, but other equipment will have to be scrapped.
Huawei still has considerable influence in France. In 2020, the company opened a research center covering an area of 8,000 square feet (743 square meters) in a high-end Paris neighborhood and said in December last year that it would open its research center outside China in the eastern French town of Brumas in 2023. The first production plant.
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