Singapore will begin rolling out its 5G services early next year.
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Singapore’s leading telecommunications providers selected European telecommunications Ericsson and Nokia instead of Huawei to develop the city-state’s core 5G network, joining a growing list of countries that have limited the Chinese company’s role in construction. of the next generation wireless network.
Singapore Telecommunications, which is the country’s largest telecommunications company, chose to use Ericsson’s equipment from Sweden after a “rigorous bidding process”, while the StarHub-M1 joint venture chose Nokia from Finland after Singapore gave the green light. end to telecommunications for city-state 5G deployment. Meanwhile, Huawei will work with Australia’s TPG Telecom, which is ready to build a smaller network in Singapore.
The announcement comes after several countries, including the United Kingdom and Canada, reduced or eliminated Huawei’s role in developing 5G networks amid pressure from the US to exclude Chinese telecommunications for security reasons. national.
But Singapore’s Minister of Communications and Information S. Iswaran emphasized that Singapore Telecommunications did not “exclude any provider,” in an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday. “You have a diversity of providers involved in different aspects of the global 5G system.”
Huawei declined to comment.
Singapore left telecommunications providers to choose their network providers as long as they met certain criteria, including security and performance. Telecoms obtained 5G licenses in April, but had not yet completed the required regulatory processes, including selecting their preferred frequency spectrum lots, supplier partners and other technical and legal issues, the Media Development Authority said Wednesday ( IMDA) by Infocomm.
The United States has long alleged that Huawei maintains a close relationship with the Chinese government and that the company’s equipment could be used to spy on other countries and companies. Huawei has repeatedly denied this.
Singapore will launch its 5G service early next year, with plans to cover the entire city-state by 2025. 5G is the next generation of wireless networks that has been deployed worldwide. It is live in several major cities in the U.S., as well as parts of China, South Korea and the United Kingdom, among other countries. The new technology is geared up for ultra-fast downloads and uploads, but it’s also geared up to power everything from autonomous cars to advanced augmented reality experiences.
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