Spending Review: We spy a stray 60m is that all you can spare to help 5G market recover from UK kicking out Huawei?
Plus: Broadband ambitions meet cold water Among the economic doom and gloom of the UK’s Autumn Spending Review, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak inadvertently revealed the sop UK.gov plans to throw to telcos after sacking Huawei from the UK’s 5G rollout at the behest of an orange one-term president of the US.…
Date: 2020-11-26
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