The Hague: T-Mobile, the largest mobile network provider in the Netherland's will stop building networks with Chinese company Huawei as Swedish company Ericsson will supply the new 5G radio network to T-Mobile.
The contract with the current supplier Huawei signed in 2017 will not be renewed. The decision has been taken after the rules were tightened over the use of Huawei technology due to apprehensions of espionage, reported local media.
Earlier, T-Mobile relied almost entirely on Chinese technology until a few years ago. The management and maintenance of the network were also outsourced by T-Mobile to Huawei.
The decision to replace Huawei with Ericsson is not surprised considering China's laws that state companies must cooperate with its intelligence services.
"T-Mobile has entered into a long-term commitment with Ericsson for the provision of the mobile radio network for both 5G and the current 3G and 4G," said T-Mobile.
Telecom providers in the Netherlands have been informed that they will be compensated if they get rid of their networks of 'unreliable suppliers/equipment', said the local media.
Earlier, Australia, Canada, New Zealand UK, and US also imposed restrictions or banned Huawei equipment from their 5G network.
Meanwhile, KPN is the only Dutch telecom that is using Huawei in the 5G network but has removed it from the core network, for which they have engaged Ericsson, reported local media.
Huawei now is only limited to peripheral networks in the case of KPN.
New Delhi: The Income Tax Department has accused an Indian unit of Chinese technology company Huawei of repatriating large amounts to the parent in the form of dividends, reducing its taxable income here.
Claiming discrepancies in the income declared by Huawei Telecommunications India for at least two financial years, the department said the company had repatriated Rs 750 crore “even when its revenue was reducing drastically
The tax department had frozen the bank accounts of the company in February, after conducting a search operation in its premises and accusing it of tax evasion. The Delhi High Court in April stayed the attachment of the accounts on Huawei’s plea and sought the department’s response. The department detailed the charges against the company in its response filed earlier this week, which ET has see
Huawei had denied any wrongdoing and claimed in its petition to the court that the attachment of the accounts, without giving any notice, had affected its busines.
from various key personnel were “stone walled” by the company “under a design to thwart lawful investigations”, it said. The executives told the officials that relevant details sought would take time “up to six weeks”, it added.
The affidavit said the dump of transactional data provided to it consisted of “millions of line items/transactions which have not been segregated into various ledgers and groups” and that it could not be taken as the books of accounts.
The department also submitted that “it is not in dispute that books of accounts of Huawei India are not maintained in India and only transaction level data is maintained on ERP servers in China which is claimed by the company to be sufficient to ascertain the prescribed books of accounts”. However, it said citing the Companies Act, that “back-up of the books of account maintained in electronic mode, including at a place outside India, is required to be kept in servers physically located in India”. The department further stated that until the first week of June, the company had not specifically identified the location of such physical servers in India.
“The post facto submission of details by the company does not absolve it of non-compliance during the course of the search,” the affidavit said.
In April, the court stayed the attachment of the bank accounts subject to the company keeping Rs 100 crore in a fixed deposit account.
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