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Saturday 14 december 2019
Norway’s Telenor drops Huawei for Ericsson in 5G contract

By KELVIN CHAN facilitate spying by China’s
AP Business Writer communist leaders - alle-
LONDON (AP) — Norway’s gations the company has
biggest wireless carrier, consistently denied.
Telenor, on Friday chose Superfast 5G networks and
Sweden’s Ericsson to supply the new innovations they
part of its new 5G network, promise to bring, such as
ending its cooperation with telemedicine and auto-
Chinese tech giant Huawei mated factories, will run
after a decade. heavily on software in the
The company signaled it network “core,” which the
would gradually remove U.S. says exposes them to
Huawei equipment as it up- greater security vulnerabili-
grades radio gear for the ties.
next generation of mobile In a win for Huawei, Ger-
networks, in a move likely man carrier Telefonica
to please the U.S., which Deutschland said this week
has been lobbying Euro- that it chose Huawei and
pean allies to sideline the Finland’s Nokia to jointly
Chinese company over cy- supply equipment for the
berespionage concerns. less-sensitive 5G radio net-
The company “carried out work, with a decision on
an extensive security eval- suppliers for the core due
uation” in its selection pro- next year.
cess, alongside considering A Huawei employee talks on her cellphone as she stands next to a sign at Huawei’s campus in Telefonica Deutschland,
factors such as technical Shenzhen in southern China’s Guandong Province, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Germany’s No. 2 wireless
quality, commercial terms Associated Press carrier, made its decision
and the ability to innovate away from Huawei a de- work’s core. Telenor has tough business decisions even though the govern-
and modernize, Telenor cade after they started mobile operations in Nordic as they find themselves ment may tighten up 5G
Group CEO Sigve Brekke collaborating, said it will countries but also in Paki- caught in the middle of security guidelines.
said. continue to use its existing stan, Bangladesh, Thailand, a geopolitical battle over The company added a ca-
“Based on the comprehen- equipment from the Chi- Malaysia and Myanmar. Huawei. veat that Huawei’s partici-
sive and holistic evaluation, nese company as it transi- Huawei declined to com- Wireless companies often pation was “subject to the
we have decided to intro- tions to the new network ment. Ericsson did not im- prefer Huawei because of successful safety certifica-
duce a new partner for this over the next four to five mediately respond to a re- its reputation for cheap, re- tion of the technology and
important technology shift years. It has already cho- quest for comment. liable gear but U.S. officials the companies” in accor-
in Norway,” Brekke said. sen Ericsson and Finland’s European mobile phone are warning allies that the dance with German legal
Telenor, which is moving Nokia to build the 5G net- companies are facing company can be used to provisions.q
Twitter brings back election labels for 2020 U.S. candidates

By BARBARA ORTUTAY Twitter, along with Face- The 2020 presidential can-
AP Technology Writer book and other social me- didates are already all
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — dia companies, has been verified and Twitter says if
Twitter is bringing back under heavy scrutiny for more join the race, they
special labels to help us- allowing their services to will get verified too.
ers identify accounts and be misused by malicious The company says it won't
tweets from U.S. political individuals and groups try- apply election labels to
candidates. ing to influence elections presidential candidates
The company, which first around the world. but may do so down the
used such labels for the Facebook also verifies ac- road.
midterm elections last counts for public figures Major presidential candi-
year, said it is trying to and celebrities, while You- dates already have blue
provide users with original Tube verifies official chan- check marks to indicate
sources of information and nels. that Twitter has confirmed
prevent spoofed and fake But they don't go as far as the accounts are legiti-
accounts from fooling vot- adding election labels. mate.
ers. Labels will be used only Many candidates for
Many political candidates for general election can- House, Senate and guber-
already have blue check didates and will start ap- natorial races have them
marks to indicate that Twit- pearing once candidates as well.
ter has confirmed that they This July 9, 2019, file photo shows a sign outside of the Twitter have won their parties' pri- Twitter said Thursday it will
are who they say they are. office building in San Francisco. maries or have otherwise verify additional accounts,
The election labels go Associated Press qualified for the general even if candidates do not
further and provide de- accounts and tweets, This could prevent some- election ballot. seek them, by working with
tails such as what office a even if they are retweeted one from creating an ac- Twitter said it will apply the the nonprofit, nonpartisan
person is running for and by someone else. count pretending to be labels in House, Senate Ballotpedia.
where. Twitter hopes its efforts will a politician, for instance, and gubernatorial races. Twitter said the verifications
They will also carry a small help people know when or attributing a tweet to a Presidential candidates will happen on a rolling ba-
ballot box icon. The labels candidates are behind the candidate who didn't ac- are not included in Twitter's sis as candidates qualify
will appear on candidates' words attributed to them. tually make the tweet. new policies. for next year's primaries.q