Vietnam Prefers Its Mobile Networks to Be Free of Huawei (1)

Vietnam is intent on being the first Asean nation to provide a 5G network—without China’s tech powerhouse Huawei Technologies Inc.

Viettel Group, Vietnam’s largest mobile carrier owned by the Defense Ministry, will deploy Ericsson AB’s equipment in Hanoi and Nokia Oyj’s technology in Ho Chi Minh City, said Viettel Chief Executive Officer Le Dang Dung. It will use 5G chipsets from Qualcomm Inc. and another U.S. company. The carrier, which uses Ericsson and Nokia for its 4G network, is also developing its own equipment, he added.

“We are not going to work with Huawei right now,” Dung said in an ...