Microsoft is starting to enter the 5G network market. This comes as Huawei 5G Technology has been banned across the UK and as Microsoft has signed contracts with Verizon, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom. 

Microsoft is marketing themselves as partners to networking operators like Vodafone in order to reduce delays in transmitting data over the network. 

They are facilitating the 5G network with Azure data centres and cloud services.

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