More than two years after being blacklisted in the United States, Huawei has its status confirmed by the Biden administration. Or rather weighed down, since Reuters reports today that Donald Trump’s successor has just ratified his complement, The Secure Equipment Act.
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Because, if until now Huawei (and ZTE) was not authorized to install network equipment (5G antennas, in particular) in the United States, it seems that in the absence of federal funding, the United States does not have not been able to block any acquisitions. The Secure Equipment Act secures this point, since it simply prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the federal telecoms regulatory authority, from approving equipment likely to harm national security, it is that is to say from these Chinese firms. Let us add that the law had in fact been approved by the United States Senate in October, and was signed on November 11 by President Joe Biden. Suffice to say that the hope for clemency that his election had aroused, after the Trump era, is only a distant memory.
Huawei has not officially reacted to this decision, but had already judged, as early as last June, that the United States was acting “without evidence”. In addition, in the first half of the year, the Chinese firm’s network activity accounted for nearly half of its revenues, and its consumer division, driven until 2019 by smartphones, has seen its turnover drop since then. . However, the brand hopes, by relying on its HarmonyOS operating system and by diversifying its product catalog, to regain its place in the mobile market within a few years.
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