Kenya backs Safaricom in US, Huawei 5G fight

Kenya will resist pressure to push Safaricom to cut its contract with China’s Huawei in the roll-out of the country’s fifth-generation (5G) network.
Joe Mucheru, the Cabinet Secretary for ICT, told the Business Daily Monday that Kenya wouldn’t stop the 5G rollout amid tensions between the US and China over Huawei’s involvement.

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“I have not seen any letter or document about stopping the project and we cannot stop even if we are asked to do so. We are an independent country,” Mr Mucheru told the Business Daily in the sidelines of a digital police occurrence book launch in Nairobi.
“Again, the government does not deal with vendors. It’s the service providers who will decide who to work with”.
The US has been urging its European allies and others not to use Huawei, one of Safaricom’s network vendors along with Nokia, citing security concerns.

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Say it again:D:D:D

the day america will make kenya to choose btwn being offered intelligence and security backing from America or huawei ndio watu watajua vitu ni serious …
choose btwn ku ambiwa inteligence ya when alshabab will be bombing us or choose huawei

Even Nokia is blacklisted by the US?

China is a blaring concern.

If its not in America’s interests to share the Intel then they won’t. So going their way on Huawei does not guarantee anything. Its about interests not friendship. And America is looking to its own

Safaricom can’t stop working with Huawei in a day, most of safaricom’s network, telecom infrastructure is by huawei…

Exactly. Wakiacha baas ni ivo. Hata modem zao ni za Huawei.

Wacha Mucheru apayuke tu. Hapa tuko entanglement. Default settings saa hii ni US lakini kijana amekula pesa ya mchina. Sasa unashindwa mwelekeo ni gani.