THE Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) on Thursday shrugged off worries about rising tensions between the United States and China-based Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., saying they only had minimal impact on the local telecommunications sector.

“Local telcos have made pronouncements that they will diversify in their present and future procurements of equipment to make their networks more robust and future-proof,” the department said in a statement.

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