Huawei to build network equipment factory in France
PARIS (Reuters) – China’s Huawei said on Thursday it would make investments 200 million euros in setting up a cellphone network equipment factory in the east of France, pressing ahead with the roll-out no matter French curbs on companies using its 5G gear.
The plant will initially make use of 300 people, rising to 500 in the long term, and its merchandise will go to Huawei’s European consumers.
The Chinese experience agency, which had already floated plans for a French factory, said in March it would persevere regardless of whether or not or not the French authorities cracked down on telecoms corporations using its equipment.
The plant is part of efforts to ease worldwide points stoked by U.S. charges, repeatedly denied by Huawei, that Beijing might use the company’s equipment for spying.
France has not …