France network outage puts Nokia under scrutiny as EU pushes to phase out Huawei, ZTE gear

A failure involving one of Europe’s two main telecoms equipment suppliers feeds into debate over network resilience and vendor diversity

The problem first hit the network of France’s biggest telecoms provider Orange at 11.37am on Monday and lasted until 8.30pm, resulting in outages of up to nine hours for some customers, Orange France CEO Jerome Henique told French newspaper Le Figaro.