End of choice.
https://www.telecomreview.com/index.php/articles/reports-and-coverage/3634-us-considers-buying-controlling-stakes-in-nokia-and-ericsson
Spying to the left of them , Spying to the right
Into the valley of the surveillance State rode just about everyone.
<Quote> “There are only two companies that can compete with Huawei right now: Nokia and Ericsson,” Barr said in a speech on the Chinese economic threat. “The main concern about these suppliers is that they have neither Huawei's scale nor the backing of a powerful country with a large embedded market like China,”</Quote>
So, create/prop up a 5G alternative to Huawei - shoulda done that before they told countries not to use the kit.
As it stands currently, noone provides a viable alternative....