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Report: Japan's NTT Docomo will not sell Huawei 5G phones

Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo Inc. will not offer handsets from Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. for its upcoming 5G network due to Android access concerns, the Nikkei Asian Review reported, citing unnamed NTT Group executives.

The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. unit, which plans to launch its 5G network in spring 2020, will reportedly not procure Huawei 5G phones due to concerns about restricted access to Google LLC services. Docomo also plans to begin selling 5G-compatible phones next spring.

Rival carriers KDDI Corp. and SoftBank Corp. will likely follow Docomo's lead when they roll out their 5G device lineups, the report said.

The decision not to sell 5G phones from Huawei comes several months after the U.S. government blacklisted the Chinese telecom equipment maker. Huawei has long been under scrutiny in the U.S., where officials have suggested the company's ties to China's government could pose a national security threat for other countries. Tensions between the U.S. and China led to a brief interruption in Huawei's ability to use Google's Android operating system earlier this year.

Huawei debuted its own operating system, HarmonyOS, in August with a company executive saying it can "immediately" replace Android should its access to the Alphabet Inc. unit's software be disrupted again.