France's Orange chooses Nokia and Ericsson to deploy its 5G network at home

PARIS (Reuters) - Orange , France's biggest telecoms company, said it had chosen Nokia and Ericsson to deploy its 5G network in mainland France, as China's Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL] faces intense political scrutiny in Europe.The former monopoly's decision is likely to please U.S. authorities, which have been seeking for months to convince European allies to ban Huawei from telecoms networks on concerns that the Chinese firm could be used to steal Western secrets -- assertions it strongly..