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
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A mobile network outage in France this week has raised questions about the reliability of Finnish telecoms giant Nokia’s products against the backdrop of continued European Union efforts to phase out Chinese suppliers Huawei Technologies and ZTE over security concerns.
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.
At the core of the outage was a software bug in Nokia’s code, Henique said, adding that the flaw was new to Orange and “extremely complicated to find”.
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