Huawei has grown to become the world’s top provider of telecom equipment
How Huawei ended up on United States’ blacklist
Huawei’s troubles in the US started early: It was met with suspicion not long after it started competing with US router firms in the aughts, and kept hitting snags after that. In 2003, networking firm Cisco accused Huawei of intellectual property theft. In 2008, a deal with 3Com collapsed over concerns about Huawei’s ties in China. In 2014, T-Mobile sued Huawei for stealing, among other technology, part of a robot’s arm.
US president Donald Trump signed an executive order that effectively bans Huawei from accessing US supply chains, his strongest action yet against the company. Google proceeded to pull Huawei’s Android license—after a grace period allowed by the Trump administration for current users, the company’s future phones will be cut off from the most widely used operating system in the world. Suppliers from Britain, such as chip maker ARM, are set to follow Google’s lead.
Huawei reportedly launched a 5G lab in South Korea but kept quiet due to the US ban
The lab is the Chinese telecom’s first open next-generation wireless network development center where companies can test their platforms. Huawei apparently plans to invest $5 million in the lab.
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