{"id":996738,"date":"2026-03-07T07:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996738"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:33:33","slug":"vietnam-eyes-new-5g-deals-with-chinese-tech-firms-despite-us-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/07\/vietnam-eyes-new-5g-deals-with-chinese-tech-firms-despite-us-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam eyes new 5G deals with Chinese tech firms despite US warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HANOI: Vietnam&#8217;s police-owned telecom operator Mobifone is in talks with Chinese tech firms over new contracts to build parts of its 5G network, three people briefed on the plan said, despite U.S. warnings of security risks following earlier deals. <\/p>\n<p>The talks precede a planned visit to China by Vietnam&#8217;s top leader To Lam in coming weeks, one of the sources said, in a new sign of warming ties between the two Communist neighbours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HANOI: Vietnam&#8217;s police-owned telecom operator Mobifone is in talks with Chinese tech firms over new contracts to build parts of its 5G network, three people briefed on the plan said, despite U.S. warnings of security risks following earlier deals. The talks precede a planned visit to China by Vietnam&#8217;s top leader To Lam in coming weeks, one of the sources said, in a new sign of warming ties between the two Communist neighbours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}