Today we’re going to run down the effective Huawei ban list, the basics in China-based spy fears, and the fallout. This has a little to do with ZTE, a lot to do
Today we’re going to run down the effective Huawei ban list, the basics in China-based spy fears, and the fallout. This has a little to do with ZTE, a lot to do with China’s government, and what might be the worst bout of luck a company ever had (with regard to their native country’s timing for a trade war with the United States). But most importantly, we’re going to list all the places Huawei’s been banned, rejected, or removed in the recent past.
Back in January of 2006, a Newsweek report suggested India’s Intelligence Bureau suspected Huawei “had ties” to China’s intelligence apparatus and military. British government officials had similar concerns during the proposed 2005 Huawei bid for ownership of the electronics and information technology firm.
In 2011, Verizon and AT&T had to send the US Commerce Department information about potential China-based spyware. In 2012, the bans began. Have a peek at Huawei and ZTE could “undermine US national security” say lawmakers from October of 2012. A large part of this had to do with embargoed equipment sales in Iran and Huawei’s apparent bypassing of that embargo.
Huawei / US Government / Market Timeline:
• Huawei faced a ban in Canada in 10/12 (October, 2012)
• US government purchase of China-made tech banned in 03/13
• Huawei said they’d “exit the US market” in 12/13
• US bill sought federal ban on working with ZTE and Huawei in 01/18
• AT&T backed out of a Huawei deal in 01/18 (link below)
• Verizon dropped Huawei phones in 01/18
• Best Buy pulled Huawei phones from store shelves in USA in 03/18
• Huawei, ZTE banned from military base retail stores in 05/18
• In Australia, Huawei banned from use of NBN 5G network 06/18
• Huawei phones banned from use with video app VLC in 07/18
• DNC warns Democrats in US government to avoid Huawei and ZTE 08/18
• ZTE, Huawei banned completely from US government use in 08/18
• Huawei phones banned from 3DMark benchmarking software for cheating, 09/18
• All major US carriers drop Huawei, US gov pressures parent companies in 12/18
• Huawei banned from government contracts (and use by government officials) in 12/18
• The US DOJ hit Huawei with charges of fraud, sanctions violations, etc, in 01/19
• Google banned Huawei from key Android apps and updates on May 19th, 2019
• Qualcomm, Intel, Xilinx, Broadcom cut off Huawei hardware on May 19th, 2019
• Microsoft removes Huawei laptop from store shelves, May 21st, 2019
In October of 2013, Huawei suggested that it’d take one decade to convince the USA that they were safe to use.
