We should clarify that in Australia, the mobile phone company Huawei is banned from providing equipment for the Australian government’s national broadband network, but can sell network equipment to private companies there (“Will AT&T call to drop Chinese phone-maker end its US hopes?”, Business, last week, page 42).
The readers’ editor was too hasty last week to correct an apparent error from 1791. The Observer had been right to describe Mozart as a German composer, as Salzburg, his birthplace, would not be annexed by Habsburg Austria until 1805 (“The readers’ editor on… my years as your voice”, Comment, page 40).
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