The saga of Huawei’s involvement in 5G deployments across Europe continues amid strong indications from sources published by global news agency Reuters that Vodafone Italy has been given conditional clearance to deploy equipment from Huawei in its 5G RAN. The sources indicated that Italian prime minister Mario Draghi authorized the deal between Vodafone and Huawei on May 20, which would appear to represent a U-turn. In October 2020, the government blocked Swisscom subsidiary Fastweb from deploying 5G RAN equipment from Huawei, the operator having earlier adopted the Chinese vendor as its preferred broadband supplier. Then in April 2021, Telecom Italia (TIM) was rumored to have caved into political pressure and cancelled a 5G contract with Huawei. At the same time,…