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The US is threatening to block all technology exports to Huawei, potentially forcing the Chinese company to switch to semiconductors and intellectual property from non-US sources.
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The US government has granted Huawei licences to buy microchips for car components, in the first sign of easing in the battle with the Chinese vendor.
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Huawei has lost two court appeals within a few days that together set back its desire to return to supplying European and US telcos with its equipment.
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Chinese company Huawei has opened what it calls its largest global cyber security and privacy protection transparency centre.
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Infinera believes the equipment industry has a US$1 billion opportunity to replace Huawei’s optical equipment between now and 2025.
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The UK is too small to influence to market for telecoms infrastructure, says a new report to the country’s government. And there is no long-term solution to the problem of replacing Huawei kit in the four UK mobile networks.
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Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou will have access to documents from HSBC in her case to avoid extradition to the US.
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Huawei’s business everywhere but China has slumped following the US embargo on the company, according to today’s annual report.
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Huawei is denying a Reuter’s report this morning that the Chinese vendor is planning to make electric vehicles under its own brand and that it could launch some models this year.
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Huawei is willing to fund exhaustive security checks of its equipment in Sweden as a way of allowing operators to bid for 5G licences using its kit.
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Hopes that the incoming US administration will reverse Donald Trump’s strategy on China faded last night when the two Democrats on the US regulator approved moves against China Telecom and Huawei.
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Huawei has won the first round in a legal battle to allow Swedish operators to continue using its equipment in mobile networks.
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Huawei is taking the Swedish telecoms regulator to court over its ban on operators from using its equipment in 5G networks.
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The US has persuaded Bulgaria to block the use of Huawei and ZTE kit in its 5G networks and the US is now asking Egypt to adopt its so-called Clean Network programme.
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No US telco or internet provider can provide services to WeChat from Sunday, or to TikTok from 12 November, commerce secretary Wilbur Ross said this morning.
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Telefónica is the latest European telco to avoid Huawei in its 5G infrastructure.
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CenturyLink, Cincinnati Bell, Verizon and Windstream are among 51 telcos in the US that use Huawei or ZTE equipment that will have to be removed by order of the regulator.
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The UK’s cyber security centre, which has played a leading part in examining the security of Huawei equipment in critical infrastructure, is to get a new head.
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Deutsche Telekom has avoided a clash with the German government by deciding to award Ericsson its contract for 5G network equipment.
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The UK’s mobile operators have taken calmly yesterday’s announcement that it will be illegal to buy Huawei for 5G services after the end of the year.
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Huawei’s revenue growth rate fell from 23.2% to a modest, for the Chinese vendor, 13.1% in the first half of the year.
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Four UK government departments are considering moves to spend millions to enable some of the country’s surviving telecoms engineering talent to rebuild a manufacturing capability.
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Technology is going to become regionalised, but “that does not mean that a full splinternet is inevitable”, says a new report from Fitch Solutions.
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Huawei says it will take “months” to assess the impact of tightening restrictions on using chips designed with US patents.
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The US is on the verge of winning its battle to persuade the UK to ban Huawei from its telecoms networks, says a former spy chief.
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The organisation that represents mobile phone operators in rural parts of the US have complained at the immediate banning of Huawei and ZTE.
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American policy towards Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE has been shaped by politics and by the US president’s desire to make “personal gestures” to his Chinese counterpart, according to a new book.
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The US is pushing Brazil to ban Huawei and instead insist its telecoms companies use Scandinavian suppliers Ericsson and Nokia for their 5G networks, with US financial help.
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The Chinese telcos that are facing cancellation of their US licences have protested to the regulator that there is no basis for the action against them.
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Officials in the UK are exploring ways to rebuild the country’s capability in making telecoms equipment, so local companies can win a share of the current 5G investment programme if Huawei is blocked.