• For all of the marketing hoopla championing 5G, coverage remains pitiful outside China, which had installed 400,000 5G base stations by the end of June. | REUTERS
    For all of the marketing hoopla championing 5G, coverage remains pitiful outside China, which had installed 400,000 5G base stations by the end of June. | REUTERS
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The advent of 5G networks has accentuated U.S. concerns about lacking a domestic rival to the mighty Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

Yet the Chinese telecoms equipment maker’s main competitors, Ericsson AB and Nokia Oyj, have good reason to be relieved that they are domiciled in Sweden and Finland respectively. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has spent much of the past two years cajoling other countries into banning gear made by Huawei from their networks. Had the two Nordic firms been U.S.-based, they would likely have been subject to retaliatory bans in China.

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