Questions over Huawei

India needs to protect its 5G rollout

The US government’s ban on US-based companies doing business with Huawei (as well as multiple other Chinese corporate entities) has far-reaching consequences for the global telecommunications industry and the mobile handset market. The ban also has very disturbing implications for India’s national security. The privately-owned Chinese multinational corporation is the world’s largest telecom network equipment provider and the second-largest handset manufacturer. It had over $105 billion in revenues in 2018. The ban has been “temporarily relaxed” for 90 days to prevent network disruptions in the US. But Google, which provides the Android Operating System and runs the Google Play app