As with any mobile phone deal, the devil is in the small print – and that perhaps is the case with the UK government’s announcement today on Huawei.

On the face it is, today’s ban is very good news. Huawei, the Chinese telecoms giants whose detractors claim is a front for the Chinese Communist Party’s desire to dominate UK and global advanced telecomms, needs to be out of the UK’s 5G network by later this decade — 2027 — whilst no new Huawei kit will be sold into the 5G network after the end of this year.