A mobile communication network failure that occurred in France this week raised questions about the reliability of Finnish telecom giant Nokia products. Meanwhile, the EU is continuing to push for the phasing out of equipment from Chinese suppliers, citing so-called safety concerns. Jerome Henick, CEO of France's largest telecom operator Orange France, told France's “Le Figaro” that the fault first appeared on the company's network at 11:37 a.m. on Monday and did not end until 8:30 p.m., causing communication services for some users to be interrupted for 9 hours. Enik said that the root cause of this failure was a software bug in Nokia's code. He added that Orange had never experienced this vulnerability before and that the vulnerability was “extremely difficult to detect.”

A mobile communication network failure that occurred in France this week raised questions about the reliability of Finnish telecom giant Nokia products. Meanwhile, the EU is continuing to push for the phasing out of equipment from Chinese suppliers, citing so-called safety concerns. Jerome Henick, CEO of France's largest telecom operator Orange France, told France's “Le Figaro” that the fault first appeared on the company's network at 11:37 a.m. on Monday and did not end until 8:30 p.m., causing communication services for some users to be interrupted for 9 hours. Enik said that the root cause of this failure was a software bug in Nokia's code. He added that Orange had never experienced this vulnerability before and that the vulnerability was “extremely difficult to detect.”