What's the Story? For BT, good riddance to Huawei would be a Christmas miracle
Light Reading's Iain Morris joins the podcast to explain the challenges BT is facing in meeting the UK government's deadline to remove Huawei tech from its mobile core.
At a Glance
- BT's Mark Henry explains the difficulty of moving customers and systems off one mobile core and onto a new one (01:03)
- Will the UK government grant BT an extension on the Huawei removal deadline? (07:05)
- Why some service providers are hesitant to go all-in on the public cloud (08:48)
For BT, Huawei is an ex whose left-behind vinyls and Van Halen t-shirt make one wonder if they're ever completely gone. Nearly a decade into the breakup, BT is still trying to rid its mobile core of Huawei tech, with a fast-approaching year-end deadline from the UK government.
Light Reading's Iain Morris joins the podcast to explain the challenges BT is facing in meeting that deadline. We also discuss BT's and other service providers' concerns about using the public cloud for certain aspects of their network.
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Here are a few topics we covered:
BT's Mark Henry explains the difficulty of moving customers and systems off one mobile core and onto a new one (01:03)
Challenges BT faces in meeting the end-of-year deadline to remove Huawei tech from its mobile core (03:15)
The trouble with sunsetting one mobile core and testing a new one (04:51)
Will the UK government grant BT an extension on the Huawei removal deadline? (07:05)
Why some service providers are hesitant to go all-in on the public cloud (08:48)
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