Huawei is working with Google to resist the Trump ban, says a senior executive

A senior Huawei executive says the company is "working closely" with Google to combat U.S. President Donald Trump'due south ban.

Abraham Liu, Huawei'southward representative to the Eu, told Reuters that the visitor was not blaming Google for blocking business organisation and wasn't able to elaborate on what the future consequences will exist.

"They [Google] take zilch motivation to block us. We are working closely with Google to find out how Huawei tin handle the situation and the impact from the U.S. Department of Commerce determination," Liu said to Reuters. "Huawei is becoming the victim of bullying past the U.South. assistants. This is not only an attack against Huawei. Information technology is an attack on the liberal, rules-based order."

Google fabricated the decision to append its concern, which would involve "the transfer of hardware and software products" on May 19th. It said it would only allow Huawei "to be able to utilize the public version of Android and will not be able to get access to proprietary apps and services from Google."

The block comes later on Trump signed an executive order that would ban whatsoever foreign company from supplying U.S. companies equipment if they pose a national security threat.

Huawei Canada told MobileSyrup that it would proceed to provide security updates and after-sales services to all existing Huawei smartphone and tablet products "covering those that have been sold and that are however in stock globally."

On May 20th, the U.S. Commerce Department (USCD) granted Huawei a temporary licence allowing it to maintain its electric current networks and allowing it to provide software updates to existing Android devices. This licence, however, expires on August 19th, which the USCD said is plenty fourth dimension for companies to brand alternating arrangements.

Source: Reuters