The United States urges Ireland and other European allies to seek an alternative to using China's Huawei to obtain 5G telecommunications infrastructure, US Vice President Mike Pence said during a joint press conference with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in Dublin on Monday, APA reports citing Sputnik.
“The United States urges Ireland and all our allies in Europe to reject [Chinese] equipment that could compromise the integrity of our shared telecom infrastructure," Pence said. "We're working with telecom companies across the world to develop 5G alternatives to Huawei and we hope to have the opportunity to work with the Republic of Ireland in this endeavour as well."
Pence said there is no place for what he called are untrusted vendors anywhere in the United States' 5G supply chain.