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Crown Castle CEO sees growing opportunities with 5G in the US

  Crown Castle expects 5G technology to represent a growth opportunity for the company next year, the company’s CEO Jay Brown said during a conference call with investors. “We expect the elevated level of tower leasing to continue into next year. As 5G becomes a reality...

Huawei’s revenues continue strong growth despite US shut-out

  Huawei Technologies posted revenues of CNY 610.8 billion ($86 billion) in the first three-quarters of the year, climbing 24.4% year-on-year, despite a trade ban imposed by the U.S. government earlier this year. The company's net profit margin in this period was 8.7%, Huawei said in...

JMA to build new 5G manufacturing facility in New York

  4G and 5G infrastructure company JMA announced plans to transform a section of downtown Syracuse, New York, into an advanced 5G manufacturing and edge development center, the company said in a release. JMA said that the planned 5G campus will be the manufacturing site for what it claims to...

US Cellular to launch 5G in Iowa, Wisconsin in Q1 2020

  US Cellular has announced plans to start offering 5G technology for its customers in Iowa and Wisconsin in the first quarter of 2020. The company said in a release that this initial 5G deployment, which will rely on its 600 MHz spectrum, represents the first...

Huawei already producing 5G base stations without U.S parts: reports

  Huawei Technologies is already manufacturing 5G base stations without components provided by U.S. suppliers, international press reported the vendor’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei as saying. From October, Huawei expects to produce 5,000 5G base stations per month, and next year it plans to manufacture...

US lawmakers propose $1 billion fund to replace Chinese network gear

  A U.S. House panel has unveiled bipartisan legislation that would authorize $1 billion for small and rural wireless providers to remove network equipment acquired from vendors including Huawei Technologies and ZTE, which lawmakers believe could pose national security risks. In a statement, leaders of the...

Huawei denies potential deal with China Mobile to acquire Brazil’s Oi

  Chinese vendor Huawei has denied press reports suggesting that it may partner with China Mobile in a bid to acquire Brazilian telecom operator Oi. "Huawei has no plans or interest to acquire Oi or any other Brazilian carrier. With more than 20 years in Brazil,...

Canadian telcos strike reciprocal LTE-M roaming deals with AT&T

  Canadian telecom operators Bell, Telus and Rogers have struck roaming partnerships with AT&T to provide their business customers access to AT&T's LTE-M network across the United States. Bell, which claims to be the first telco to launch LTE-M services in Canada, said that the reciprocal...

US semiconductor industry urges Trump to approve Huawei licenses

  The U.S. semiconductor industry urged President Donald Trump to ease the ban on sales to Chinese vendor Huawei through the approval of export licenses, according to Bloomberg. “We encourage prompt action to issue approvals for sales that do not implicate national security concerns, particularly where...

Huawei considers selling its 5G patents, licenses to Western buyer: Reports

  Chinese vendor Huawei’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei has proposed selling the company’s current 5G know-how to a Western company as a way to address security concerns by the U.S. and other Western countries, according to interviews published by The Economist and The New...

Huawei drops lawsuit over equipment seized by the US government

  Chinese vendor Huawei has dropped a lawsuit against the U.S. Commerce Department and other agencies after the government released telecommunications equipment seized in September 2017. The suit was filed by the Chinese company’s U.S. subsidiary, Huawei Technologies USA, in June 2019. “After a prolonged and unexplained...

Brazilian watchdog Anatel selects Viavi Solutions to test 5G spectrum

Testing comes ahead of 5G spectrum auction planned for 2020 Viavi Solutions announced it is working with Brazil's national telecommunications agency Anatel to evaluate and test 5G-suitable spectrum ahead of auctions that will take place in 2020. Viavi is a global provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions...

Huawei expands revenues despite US ban; cuts jobs in US R&D unit

Huawei subsidiary Futurewei cut 600 researchers from US operations Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies’s revenue grew nearly 30% in the first half of the year as the company managed to secure the supply of critical components to keep production going despite U.S. technology export restrictions, Bloomberg...

US firms to resume shipments to Huawei in two weeks: Report

  U.S. companies could be allowed to resume shipments of components and services to Chinese vendor Huawei in approximately two weeks, Reuters reported, citing a representative for a U.S. manufacturer. According to the report, the representative was told by a senior U.S. government official that licenses...

Huawei urges Washington to remove the firm from the trade blacklist

  Chinese vendor Huawei has not yet seen any benefit from President Donald’s Trump recent decision to allow U.S. firms to sell components to the company and urged the U.S. government to remove the company from a security blacklist, Chinese press reported Huawei’s chairman Liang...

US government confirms it will issue licenses to sell parts to Huawei

  U.S Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross confirmed that the U.S. government will issue licenses to local companies seeking to sell components to Chinese vendor Huawei where there is no threat to national security, Reuters reported. Speaking at a conference in Washington D.C, Ross affirmed that the...

Trump makes U-turn and says US firms will be able to sell parts to Huawei

  U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that U.S. companies can sell their equipment to Chinese vendor Huawei as long as the transactions won’t present a “great, national emergency problem.” Trump made these comments during a press conference at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, after...

Ericsson inks deal to deploy 5G infrastructure in Alaska

  Alaska’s largest telecommunications operator, GCI, has selected Ericsson for the deployment of 5G infrastructure, the vendor said in a release. Ericsson said that the deployment of 5G technology will accelerate applications for the oil, gas, mining and healthcare industries across Alaska. GCI said it expects to...

Huawei challenges constitutionality of US National Defense Authorization Act

  Chinese vendor Huawei has filed a motion for summary judgment in a U.S. court, as part of the process to challenge the constitutionality of a section of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In the legal claim, Huawei argues that Section 889 of 2019...

Huawei says limited collaboration with industry bodies will not affect operations

  Huawei Technologies said that the recent decision by a number of standards and industry organizations to partially suspend collaboration with the company will not have an impact in Huawei’s daily operations. Huawei said in a statement that the suspension of technical collaboration between these entities...

Arm suspends business with Huawei due to US export ban: Report

  U.K.-based chip designer Arm has instructed its staff to suspend business with Chinese vendor Huawei, the BBC reported, citing an internal memo. In the internal document, Arm urged employees to halt "all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements” with Huawei and its subsidiaries,...

US export ban ‘won’t have a huge impact’ on Huawei, says founder

  An export ban recently imposed by the U.S. government on Huawei will not have a huge impact in the company’s capacity to serve customers, Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei said during an interview with Chinese media. “We will certainly be able to continue serving our customers....

European chipmakers continue to ship to Huawei: Report

European semiconductor makers said they would still keep on supplying to Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies, following an export ban implemented by the U.S. government last week, according to a report by Bloomberg. A spokesman for German firm Infineon Technologies AG - one of Europe’s largest...

US government temporarily eases Huawei restrictions

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s  Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced that it would ease certain export restrictions recently imposed on Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies, in a move to give operators time to make other arrangements, the entity said in a release. The BIS...