Huawei Technologies Co.'s push to become a leading supplier of 5G technology in Canada appears to be in jeopardy after the Chinese tech giant's CFO suffered a legal setback in a B.C. court, prompting an angry response from Beijing.
"The chance of them being a leading supplier is next to none. I think the chance of them being involved at all in the network is still up in the air," Jonathan Berkshire Miller, an expert in international security issues with the Macdonald Laurier Institute, said Thursday.
"I think there's going to be significant pressure both domestically -- from parts of the national security community -- and also from our allies." In addition, he said, excluding Huawei from Canada could be costly and complicated for some of the wireless networks building out their 5G networks, particularly the antennae and tower base stations that Huawei has installed in Canada for a decade.
He added that Telus has been a more outspoken supporter of Huawei than Bell, which announced in February that Nokia of Finland -- another of Huawei's two long-standing rivals -- would be its first 5G supplier. "I'm not in a position to say whether they're going to give up on Huawei, but I think this has become much, much more complicated than they ever imagined it would be," Miller said.
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