Whether to allow Huawei to help build the UK's 5G network is one of the most consequential and difficult national security decisions government has faced.
The decision - due to be made at a meeting of the National Security Council later - involves balancing complex technical risks with geopolitics and costs to the economy.
But it is also an issue where room for manoeuvre is tight - partly thanks to a series of decisions going back over the years which have closed down options.
If you want to understand how we got where we are, it is worth going back more than a decade and a half to when BT was upgrading the UK's telecoms infrastructure.
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