BT's $700 Million Job to Rip-And-Replace Huawei 5G Begins Here
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Telecom engineers in hard hats and fluorescent jackets spent a decade scaling buildings to install Huawei Technologies Co. equipment across the U.K. Now, starting atop the Muswell Court tower block in Hull, they’re beginning a seven-year and $700 million task of ripping it all down because of a U.S.-led campaign against the Chinese company.
Hull is the first British city where Huawei will be eradicated from the country’s biggest network, BT Group Plc. The London-based company said it’s on track to cut out all of Huawei’s equipment there by July, substituting in components from Nokia Oyj.