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Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is finding it harder to counter U.S. sanctions designed to block its access to semiconductors, but it can continue to serve European customers on the 5G network, a top European executive told an Austrian newspaper.
FILE PHOTO: The Huawei company logo is displayed at Shenzhen International Airport in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, on July 22, 2019. REUTERS / Aly Song / File photo
ZURICH: Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is having a harder time countering US sanctions designed to block its access to semiconductors, but can continue to serve European 5G customers, a senior European executive told a newspaper. Austrian.
The world’s largest manufacturer of mobile telecommunications equipment and smartphones was still “looking for a solution” to help millions of Huawei phone users after Google was banned from providing technical support for new Huawei phone models using the operating system. Android mobile.
“Since the US sanctions last year, US semiconductor manufacturers can no longer supply us, so our previous US partners can no longer work with us. Since August it has become even more difficult,” Abraham Liu, Vice President of Huwaei for Europe, he told the Kurier newspaper.
He said Washington was “blackmailing” chipmakers to avoid ties with Huawei, denying US allegations that Beijing could use Huawei equipment to spy.
“However, we are confident that we can continue to serve our European customers in the 5G sector due to many initial preparations and investments with the most advanced technology,” Liu said without elaborating.
“As for private customers, mobile phone owners, we see great difficulties. There are 90 million European Huawei users. Google can no longer work with Huawei, so Google will no longer release updates for Huawei smartphones with the Android operating system”. he said. “We are still looking for a solution.”
Amid pressure from the United States to exclude the Chinese company from supplying key telecommunications equipment, Orange and Proximus last week chose Nokia to help build 5G networks in Belgium.
EU members have stepped up scrutiny of so-called high-risk providers. This puts Huawei’s governance and technology under critical scrutiny and is likely to lead other European carriers to remove it from their networks, analysts say.
(Reported by Michael Shields; Elaine Hardcastle edited)
