US efforts to persuade its allies to exclude Huawei from building the next generation of mobile networks suffered a blow on Thursday after Germany did not explicitly ban the Chinese company in a new set of guidelines for telecoms security.
The move came after one of the UK’s most senior intelligence officials said he was confident that its cyber security authorities could manage the risk posed by Huawei to the security of 5G networks.
The criteria, which were drawn up by Germany’s federal network regulator (the BNetzA) with help from the federal cyber security agency (BSI), come just days before Germany is due to start auctioning frequencies for its 5G network.