France won't ban Huawei, but encouraging 5G telcos to avoid it

"For those that are already using Huawei, we are delivering authorisations for durations that vary between three and eight years," Poupard said

PARIS: The head of the French cybersecurity agency ANSSI said there would not be a total ban on using equipment from Huawei in the rollout of the French 5G telecoms network, but that it was pushing French telcos to avoid switching to the Chinese company.

"What I can say is that there won't be a total ban," Guillaume Poupard told Les Echos newspaper in an interview. "(But) for operators that are not currently using Huawei, we are inciting them not to go for it."