Doubts about Huawei open doors for Japan's telecom players

NTT and NEC look to old Thai stronghold for sales of after-5G equipment

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Southeast Asia is an important market for global telecom companies. People in the region tend to spend longer on smartphones than their counterparts in industrial nations. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)

TORU TAKAHASHI, Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Headquarters for Asia

BANGKOK -- Suspicions that Huawei Technologies telecom gear could serve as back door for Chinese spying have helped breathe new life into a Japanese tech ecosystem long thought moribund.

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