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France network outage puts Nokia under scrutiny as EU pushes to phase out Huawei, ZTE gear

France network outage puts Nokia under scrutiny as EU pushes to phase out Huawei, ZTE gear
South China Morning Post Friday 30 October 2026, 07:00 UTC By Xiaofei Xu 1 min read
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A mobile network outage in France this week has raised questions about the reliability of Finnish telecoms giant Nokia’s products against the backdrop of continued European Union efforts to phase out Chinese suppliers Huawei Technologies and ZTE over security concerns. The problem first hit the network of France’s biggest telecoms provider Orange at 11.37am on Monday and lasted until 8.30pm, resulting in outages of up to nine hours for some customers, Orange France CEO Jerome Henique told...

A mobile network outage in France this week has raised questions about the reliability of Finnish telecoms giant Nokia’s products against the backdrop of continued European Union efforts to phase out Chinese suppliers Huawei Technologies and ZTE over security concerns. The problem first hit the network of France’s biggest telecoms provider Orange at 11.37am on Monday and lasted until 8.30pm, resulting in outages of up to nine hours for some customers, Orange France CEO Jerome Henique told French...
France (LOCATION) Nokia (ORG) EU (ORG) Huawei (ORG) ZTE (ORG) Finnish (ORG) European Union (ORG) Chinese (ORG) Huawei Technologies (ORG) Orange France (ORG) Jerome Henique (PERSON) French (ORG)
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