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Huawei, the world's biggest producer of telecoms equipment, is
under intense scrutiny after the United States told allies not
to use its technology because of fears it could be a vehicle for
Chinese spy operations.
Along with Sweden's Ericsson and Finland's Nokia, the company is
one of the world's largest mobile network gear suppliers.
Nick Read, chief executive of Vodafone, the world's second
largest mobile operator, told reporters in Barcelona on Monday
that cutting the number of network suppliers to two from three
would damage the industry and economic growth.
"We need to have a fact-based risk-assessed review," Read said.
"People are saying things at the moment that are not grounded,
I'm not saying that is the case for the U.S. because I have not
met them directly myself so I have not seen what evidence they
have, but they clearly need to present that evidence to the
right bodies throughout Europe."
He added that everybody he was meeting at a national level in
Europe was making it clear that they were going through a
fact-based assessment.
Vodafone said last month it would pause the deployment of
Huawei's equipment in its core networks in Europe until it had
clarity from governments on any risks.
(Reporting by Paul Sandle; writing by Kate Holton; editing by
Guy Faulconbridge and Kirsten Donovan)
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