Malaysia could be putting itself on a collision course with the EU and US as the country looks set to allow Chinese suppliers including Huawei a chance to play a part in its planned 5G network rollout.
The Southeast Asian nation said it will not interfere with commercial decisions made by telecoms operators in the country over who supplies the network kit for its second 5G network. This follows earlier warnings from the EU and US about using"untrusted suppliers.", Malaysia's Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said the country will remain a free market and allow the telecoms operators to decide whether to work with Chinese equipment makers.
These will be commercial decisions, and"the ones who need to be convinced are the telecommunication companies, the mobile network operators," Fahmi is quoted as saying, pointing out that the government itself would not be entering into any contractual arrangements with any equipment providers.
That rollout by state-owned telco Digital Nasional Berhad has been hit by numerous delays, and the current government is now looking to introduce a second 5G network to compete against it, according to previous reports.
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