In the USA, business for Huawei, it could be in the coming year even more difficult. However, in 2018, the Chinese network equipment and smartphone producer is set up well in spite of great odds a sales record.
The proceeds were to be climbing in 2018 and by 21 percent to 109 billion dollars, announced that Huawei Chairman Guo Ping on Thursday in his new year’s address. Thus, Huawei is growing faster than in the previous two years.
The Smartphone business was good, this year the number of sold devices is crack for the first time, the 200-million mark. Meanwhile, Huawei is the world’s second largest Smartphone manufacturer behind Samsung and ahead of Apple.
Optimistic of the group for the coming year, According to Guo Huawei has 26 orders for the new mobile radio standard 5G. In the case of the equipment of mobile radio and telephone companies that the number one is Huawei worldwide.
Always under a suspicion of espionage
However, Huawei is in many of the countries under observation. Secret services accuse the company, in its technique back doors for Chinese spies set up in order to get to state or commercial secrets. Huawei rejects this.
In Australia and new Zealand, the company is not allowed to participate, however, on the 5G, in the USA, she is excluded from many shops. Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou has recently been taken in Canada and only on bail of the left.
In Canada, only against bail: Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou.
Washington plans the next step
In the United States could exacerbate the Situation for Huawei and its Chinese competitor ZTE soon. According to insiders, US President, Donald Trump is considering a decree that could block the two companies access to the U.S. market. It is going to declare a state of emergency with reference to threats by foreign forces, said three with the matter people familiar to the Reuters news Agency. This could be done already in January. The according to insiders, a corresponding decree is to be tested for more than eight months.
Such a decree by the President would cause that U.S. companies should not buy equipment from Huawei and ZTE. It would be a further step in the U.S. government to urge the two Chinese technology giants in the middle of the hot current order phase for the Expansion of the new mobile wireless standards 5G from the US market.
Huawei, ZTE, and the US government were not initially opinion attainable. Both companies have rejected in the past, any espionage allegations. Local network operator in the United States are among the largest customers of Huawei and ZTE, whose products are often cheaper than the European competitors, Nokia and Ericsson.
dk/bea (Reuters)