The December 31 deadline for all telecoms providers has already been extended twice.
By failing to meet it companies could be fined up to 10 per cent of their revenue or £100,000 for every day they don’t comply.
The government banned Huawei equipment from the country’s telecoms infrastructure in 2020 because of national security concerns.
Since then, BT has been busy replacing the Huawei’s equipment with technology built by Ericsson and it met a summer deadline to reduce the amount of Huawei kit in its radio access network.
A BT Group spokesperson confirmed that some of the Huawei kit remained. They said: “All 4G and 5G data sessions and voice calls are now delivered by non-Huawei core equipment – meaning that over 99 per cent of all core traffic is now being served by non-Huawei kit.”
Three, whose core network is provided by Nokia, had only a small amount of Huawei equipment to remove and was already compliant with the December deadline.
Virgin Media also confirmed that it had already removed all Huawei equipment from its core broadband and mobile networks before the cut-off.
A government spokesman, said, “We continue to work with operators to remove Huawei technology as quickly as possible while minimising disruption for consumers, and operators remain on track to remove it from 5G public networks by the end of 2027.
“We have already introduced an immediate ban on the installation of new Huawei equipment, limiting their presence in full fibre infrastructure, and are removing technology from sites with national security implications.”
An Ofcom spokesperson, said, “Government is responsible for setting and enforcing the rules requiring certain telecoms companies to remove Huawei equipment from their networks. Ofcom’s role is to gather information on companies’ progress and report this to Government.”
Ofcom will assess the progress made in meeting the December deadline in a spring report sent to Michelle Donelan, secretary of state for science, innovation and technology.
Telecoms providers have until the end of 2027 to remove all Huawei equipment from the UK’s public 5G networks.