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Jessica Rosenworcel’s first task after her official nomination as chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been to implement a Trump-era policy to ban China Telecom from the US. -
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is back home in China, 34 months after she was arrested at Canada’s Vancouver airport on a US warrant to extradite her on charges of fraud.
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Nokia has paused its activities with the industry’s leading open RAN organisation because of threats that Washington could impose the same penalties to those on Huawei.
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US chip company Qualcomm has revealed that it is working with Chinese vendor ZTE to achieve 5Gbps speeds on 5G services on millimetre-wave spectrum.
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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 CFO Meng Wanzhou has made her final appearance in a Canadian court in her extradition battle with the US.
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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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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.
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Four mobile networks run by Vodafone in Europe use exclusively Huawei equipment, and another four have more than 50% of their equipment sourced from Huawei.
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US government action against Huawei threatens to undermine the entire telecoms industry worldwide, the company said this morning.
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The US has extended its ban on US telcos from using Huawei and ZTE equipment and software for another year.
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This year will be even more difficult for Huawei than 2019, as the US embargo on the company tightens its grip.
