Earlier this month, when ZTE had received only an interim reprieve from the US ban on its sourcing US-made components, the Chinese firm appeared to have been dropped from a contract to modernize the RAN for Wind Tre, Italy’s recently merged third MNO. Ericsson said it had won a €700m deal to modernize Wind Tre’s network instead. But last week, ZTE finalized a compromise deal with the USA and returned to normal operations, after a period when it thought it would not be able to continue with most of its businesses, since it procures so many of its components from US vendors. ZTE insisted it was back in business in Italy, as elsewhere, and was picking up the Wind Tre…