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Business Matters: UK allows Huawei role in 5G networks

UK allows Huawei role in 5G networks

29/01/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, UK allows Huawei role in 5G networks

The UK has decided to let Huawei continue to be in its 5G networks but with restrictions

The UK has decided to let Huawei continue to be used in its 5G networks but with restrictions, despite pressure from the US to block the firm.
The Chinese firm will be banned from supplying kit to "sensitive parts" of the network, known as the core.
We get reaction including from industry expert Alan Burkitt-Gray.
Also on the programme, Apple records a record breaking quarter of financial results, but warns of the threat Coronavirus to the firm, the BBC's Zoe Thomas in San Francisco brings us up to speed. Aarti Ramachandran is Head of Research and Engagements at FAIRR explains what they're doing with their investments to try and encourage the fast food industry to go green, Ramzan Karmali brings us news of the sentencing of a British trader accused of causing the 2010 "Flash Crash,"and the BBC's Susannah Streeter takes an in-depth look at the sustainability, and sometimes dubious health claims of essential oils. 
The BBC's Jamie Robertson is joined throughout the programme from Richmond, Virginia by Rhonda Vosnay Sharpe,  President of Women's Institute for Science, Equity and Race and from Singapore by Simon Littlewood President of ACG Global.

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