Huawei Italy executive says TIM decision not political - newspaper

MILAN, July 20 (Reuters) - Huawei Technologies will
continue working with Telecom Italia despite being
shut out of a recent tender to supply new generation 5G
technology, the chairman of the group's Italian unit told a
newspaper on Monday.

Luigi De Vecchis said the decision to exclude Huawei from
supplying new generation 5G services in Great Britain was a
"geopolitical, not a technological decision" but Telecom
Italia's decision was different.

"We respect the decision, which is of a commercial not a
political nature that concerns one of the many parts of the
network," he said.

"Of course we're sorry, it's not a party but we continue to
work with TIM as well as with Vodafone and others."

The U.S. government has urged allies to exclude the Chinese
telecoms giant from the West's next-generation communications
infrastructure because of the danger it could give China a
strategic opening to spy on the West.
(Reporting by James Mackenzie, Elvira Pollina, editing by
Gianluca Semeraro)