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UK officials propose limited role in 5G rollouts for Huawei: Report

  British officials have proposed granting Chinese vendor Huawei a limited role in the deployment of 5G networks in the country, resisting U.S. pressure for a complete ban, Reuters reported, citing two people with knowledge of the matter. The recommendation was made at a meeting of...

Huawei CEO: ‘We are more confident that we can survive further attacks’

  Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei said that the Chinese vendor is now “more confident” that it can survive further sanctions by the U.S. government. “This year, the U.S. might further escalate their campaign against Huawei, but I feel the impact on Huawei's business would not be...

U.S. government studies new rules to restrict shipments to Huawei: Report

  The U.S. government expects to soon publish a new rule that would expand its powers to block sales of foreign-made goods to Chinese vendor Huawei, Reuters reported, citing two sources with knowledge of the matter. In May 2019, the U.S. Department of Commerce added Huawei...

UK PM urges Huawei critics to come up with alternatives for 5G

  U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that critics of Chinese vendor Huawei must come up with alternative providers to supply equipment for 5G networks, as the U.S. government increased the pressure for a ban on the Chinese vendor. During an interview with BBC News, Johnson...

Huawei expects 2019 revenues to grow by 18% y-o-y despite US pressure

  Chinese vendor Huawei expects to reach total revenues of CNY850 billion ($121.6 billion) in 2019, which would represent an increase of approximately 18% year-on-year, Huawei’s rotating Chairman Eric Xu said in a statement. “These figures are lower than our initial projections, yet business remains solid...

Huawei files lawsuit against FCC’s Universal Service Fund restrictions

  Huawei Technologies filed a legal challenge against the new U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule barring domestic carriers from using U.S. government subsidies to purchase the Chinese company’s equipment In a petition filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Huawei...

Huawei plans to shift research center from US to Canada: Report

  Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies announced plans to move the company’s current research and development center in the U.S. and relocate to Canada, The Globe and Mail reported the company’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei as saying. Ren revealed the initiative in an interview with the Canadian newspaper,...

Trump urges Apple to get involved in 5G rollouts

Trump meets with "Tim Apple" in Austin U.S. President Donald Trump urged Apple's CEO Tim Cook to see if the company could  get involved in the deployment of 5G infrastructure in the country. “I asked Tim Cook to see if he could get Apple involved in...

US extends license to allow sales to Huawei for another 3 months

  The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce officially announced that it will extend for 90 days the Temporary General License (TGL) for Huawei and its non-U.S. affiliates which are subject to the Entity List. The TGL authorizes U.S. companies...

US government to extend Huawei’s temporary general license: Report

  The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to allow rural operators to continue doing certain transactions with Chinese vendor Huawei during an additional six-month period, Politico reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. Huawei, which had been blacklisted by the U.S. government in May, has been...

US government to approve first Huawei licenses soon: Report

Department of Commerce tallies 260 Huawei license requests U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross confirmed that the U.S. government would soon start to issue the first licenses for U.S firms looking to sell components and software to Chinese vendor Huawei, according Bloomberg. Ross said that the U.S....

Arm to continue supplying Huawei with mobile chip designs

  U.K. chip designer Arm, owned by Japan’s SoftBank, will continue to supply Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies after the firm’s legal team determined that its chip technology is of U.K. origin and would not breach U.S. restrictions previously imposed on Huawei, according to a report...

U.S firms show initial interest in Huawei’s 5G licensing proposal: report

  Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies is in early-stage negotiations with a number of U.S. telecommunications firm regarding the potential licensing of its 5G technology to them, Reuters reported, citing a company executive. Vincent Pang, SVP and board director at Huawei, confirmed that some firms in the...

US senators say the FBI could provide more evidence over Huawei theats

Letter to Microsoft lists off Huawei "evidence" A group of Republican senators sent a letter to Microsoft President Brad Smith stating that the FBI could share classified information with U.S. companies demonstrating threats the Chinese vendor Huawei poses to national security. The letter comes after Smith complained last...

U.S government urges India not to use Huawei gear in 5G networks: Report

India apparently latest focus of U.S. 5G influence campaign The U.S. government urged Indian authorities not to use telecom gear from Chinese vendor Huawei in the country’s future 5G networks as the Trump administration continues its trade war with Beijing, the Financial Times reported. Last week,...

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...

U.S. reportedly receives more than 130 applications for Huawei licenses

Huawei warned black-listing would impact its U.S. suppliers The U.S. Commerce Department has received over 130 applications from U.S. firms for licenses to sell goods to Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies, Reuters reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. However, the U.S. authorities have not yet granted...

US government extends temporary general license to Huawei for 90 days

More Huawei subsidiaries added to "entity list" The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) renewed a special temporary general license (TGL) allowing Chinese vendor Huawei to continue doing business with U.S. companies and serving existing customers for another 90 days. In May,...

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...

US judge says ZTE violated the terms of a previous probation

  The judge decided to extend a previous monitorship over the company for another two years A U.S. federal judge has ruled that Chinese vendor ZTE violated the terms of a probation which had been imposed in March 2017 when the company pleaded guilty to illegally...

Senators seek punishment for ZTE if it fails to comply with previous deal

  If approved, the bill would ask the government to inform about progress in ZTE’s compliance deal Republican and Democratic senators have introduced a bill that aims to re-impose sanctions on Chinese vendor ZTE if the firm fails to fully comply with U.S. laws and an...

Nokia warns FCC that trade war with China would affect 5G rollouts

  Nokia said that  the recent levies imposed on Chinese components will have a negative impact in 5G deployments in the U.S. market Nokia warned the U.S. Federal Communications Commission that the ongoing trade war between President Trump’s administration and the Chinese government will negatively impact...

Huawei appeals to FTC over business restrictions in the US

  The Chinese vendor argues that it had been unfairly targeted by U.S. agencies over national security concerns Chinese vendor Huawei has appealed to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for a hearing into its restricted business opportunities in the U.S. market. The company argues that it has...