German minister wants to change telecoms law to cover all foreign vendors - RND

German minister wants to change telecoms law to cover all foreign vendors - RND
FILE PHOTO: The Huawei booth is pictured at the sponsors' area during the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party congress in Hamburg, Germany, December 7, 2018. Picture taken December 7, 2018. REUTERS/Andreas Rinke/File Photo Copyright Andreas Rinke(Reuters)
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Interior Minister Horst Seehofer wants to change Germany's telecommunications law so that stricter conditions apply to all foreign vendors, the RND group of newspapers reported on Tuesday.

Citing participants in a meeting of conservatives and Social Democrats, who rule together in a grand coalition, RND said Seehofer's aim was to better control China's Huawei Technologies rather than exclude it from the German market.

It said all firms affected be subject to a security certification process and need to sign a no-spy agreement.

(Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Douglas Busvine)

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