Swedish court partly grants appeal by telecoms regulator on Huawei exclusion

FILE PHOTO: A smartphone with the Huawei and 5G network logo is seen on a PC motherboard in this illustration picture taken January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A Swedish appeals court on Wednesday partly granted an appeal by telecoms regulator PTS over its plan to exclude Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei from the country’s 5G networks.

PTS said last month it was halting 5G spectrum auctions and appealing a court decision to suspend parts of its earlier decision, in which it followed Britain in banning Huawei equipment from 5G networks, citing national security risks.

“The administrative court partly grants the appeal,” the Stockholm administrative court of appeal said in a statement.

Reporting by Helena Soderpalm and Supantha Mukherjee; editing by Niklas Pollard

source: reuters.com