Huawei lawyers claim emails prove US has no grounds to extradite CFO from Canada - The Guardian

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US justice department’s battle to extradite Meng Wanzhou from Canada has taken a fresh turn as lawyers for Huawei’s chief financial officer claimed that internal emails and bank documents prove there is no grounds to extradite her to the US.

Meng, 48, was arrested on a US warrant at Vancouver airport in late 2018, and has been battling extradition to the US. Her detention infuriated the Chinese government and has helped drag relations between Beijing and Ottawa to their lowest point in years.

The US accuses Huawei of using a Hong Kong shell company called Skycom to sell equipment to Iran in violation of US sanctions. It says Meng, 48, committed fraud by misleading HSBC about the company’s business dealings in Iran.

But Meng’s legal team argue that documents from HSBC show that Huawei was open about its links to Skycom. In a statement, Huawei Canada said: “These documents consisting of emails and other HSBC records show there is no evidence of fraud on HSBC.

“They show that Huawei’s control over Skycom was not kept from senior HSBC executives, that the continuing nature of Skycom’s business with Huawei in Iran was not kept from HSBC executives and that internal HSBC risk assessments were made based on knowledge of the true facts”.

It added “the reputational risks were managed with the knowledge of senior HSBC executives”.

Huawei lawyers will now try to persuade the Canadian court to permit the internal documents to be introduced as evidence.

Government lawyers in Canada are likely to contest Huawei’s interpretation of the documents and have argued that they are irrelevant to the extradition process and should be reserved for a fraud trial in the US.

Huawei has claimed that Meng’s arrest was prompted by the US as part of a trade war with China launched by Donald Trump.

Meng’s lawyers have been battling to gain access to the HSBC documents first in a case in February in the UK that proved unsuccessful and then in March in Hong Kong where it reached an out of court settlement with HSBC. The terms of the settlement was not published, but it appears HSBC gave Huawei access to the papers, with a confidentiality clause attached.

But last week the Canadian courts accepted an application from Canadian prosecutors and media groups that the information could not be kept under seal, an outcome that may not in reality have disappointed Huawei since it made it more likely the evidence would be admissible in court to challenge the extradition claim.

US prosecutors allege Meng gave a PowerPoint presentation to HSBC in August 2013 that the US claims “involved untrue representations” by downplaying her firm’s control of Skycom, describing the firm simply as a business partner. The US says Huawei in reality controlled Skycom’s operations in Iran until at least 2014.

HSBC, according to the US government, “relied on those and other misrepresentations in deciding to continue the banking relationship with Huawei”.

HSBC “cleared more than $100m worth of transactions related to Skycom through the United States between 2010 and 2014”, says the US.

But Huawei argues the new documentation shows Meng did not mislead the bank, and so the basis for her extradition to the US is undermined.

HSBC had already given the internal documents to the US justice department in a bid to avoid prosecution by the US, but not to Meng’s lawyers.

The Chinese government has sharply criticised HSBC’s cooperation with the US government over the case.

HSBC has said it had no legal option but to cooperate with the US authorities. But the bank has been caught in a political quandary since it is headquartered in the UK and the bulk of its profits are made in China.

Meng has been living in one of her Vancouver homes on bail since her arrest at the city’s airport in December 2018. Days after Meng’s arrest a former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor were arrested by the Chinese government on espionage charges. They remain in detention.

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Orange sees role for Huawei in 5G Africa rollout - Reuters

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BARCELONA, June 29 (Reuters) - Orange (ORAN.PA), France's largest telecoms firm, will avoid using equipment from Chinese vendors when developing Europe's 5G networks, opting for suppliers such as Ericsson (ERICb.ST) and Nokia (NOKIA.HE) instead, its chief executive said.

But the company sees no issue in working with Huawei in Africa, where the Chinese company dominates as a supplier of equipment to many telecoms operators.

"We're working more and more with Chinese vendors in Africa, not because we like China, but we have an excellent business relationship with Huawei," CEO Stephane Richard told Reuters at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday.

"They've invested in Africa while the European vendors have been hesitating."

European governments have tightened controls on Chinese companies building 5G networks following diplomatic pressure from Washington, which alleges Huawei equipment could be used by Beijing for spying.

Huawei has repeatedly denied being a national security risk.

Some countries, such as Britain and Sweden, had banned the Chinese vendors outright, while others have encouraged telecom operators to opt for European suppliers, particularly in the core parts of their networks.

"It's not only the pressure from the government - we are European citizens and share the concern," Richard said in an interview on the sidelines of Mobile World Congress. "We can't ignore the fact that the big Chinese players are close to the Chinese state."

Ericsson and Nokia have steadily taken market share from Huawei and, late last year, Orange's Belgian division decided to progressively replace Huawei equipment with kit from Nokia.

The Orange CEO also showed willingness to use gear from South Korea's Samsung, which he described as an alternative to the "China vs. Europe debate".

Samsung signed Vodafone as its first European customer earlier this month as it tries to enter a market dominated by Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei.

"We'll need time and additional investment to build new standalone networks with multiple vendors," Richard said. "The fact is that in Europe today developing 5G networks with Chinese vendors is more and more difficult - we take this as a reality."

The Orange chief, whose third four-year mandate expires next May - shortly after France's presidential elections - has faced questions about his leadership and the success of his business ventures, particularly after a network outage that disrupted France's emergency numbers this month. nL2N2NT1GR]

The separation of the president and CEO roles within Orange, which is still 23% owned by France's government, could be an option for Richard, who said he supported the practice of dissociating the positions - as did a majority of shareholders.

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Huawei's Ryan Ding: Ongoing Innovation Is Lighting up the Future of Every Industry - Huawei

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[Barcelona, Spain, June 29, 2021] During MWC Barcelona 2021, Huawei Executive Director and President of Carrier BG Ryan Ding delivered a keynote speech Innovation: Lighting up the Future. In his keynote, Ding said that innovation in ICT is becoming a key driver of the global economy and its value is moving beyond the telecoms industry. Ongoing innovation in 5G, in particular, will bring more value to operators, the ICT industry, and the global economy, and will light up the future of every industry.

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More than telecoms: Innovation in the ICT industry is becoming a key economic driver

The pandemic, Ding said, has created a new normal in which the digital economy is the driving force for the global economy. ICT infrastructure, as the cornerstone of the digital economy, is playing an increasingly important role. Ding mentioned that the value of ICT now transcends the telecoms industry and has transformative implications for the global economy as a whole.

In countries where 5G is developing faster, operators have seen faster revenue growth, and these countries also tend to have better digital infrastructure overall. Taking China as an example, in less than 18 months, more than 820,000 5G base stations have been deployed, and Chinese operators achieved a 6.5% increase in revenue and a 5.6% increase in net profits in the first quarter this year. The rapid development of digital infrastructure driven by 5G will add EUR1.9 trillion to the Chinese economy in the next five years. The same stories are also unfolding in South Korea and Europe.

More than connectivity: 5G innovation is enabling operators' business success

As ICT infrastructure is the cornerstone of the digital economy in the 5G era, operators are playing a more important role than they used to.

Ding said, "Currently, the major goal of operators in 5G is to achieve business success in three key markets – consumers, homes, and industries – through innovation in network deployment, market development, and operation optimization."

"In the consumer market, 5G means not just faster speeds; it also brings new experiences and new value. Some operators have already achieved initial business success."

According to Ding, there are three steps an operator can take to succeed in the 5GtoC market. The first is to speed up 5G deployment, with targeted network planning and investment based on precise insights into high-value areas, key scenarios, and potential users. The second is to accelerate 5G user migration, and the third step is to create value-driven, flexible pricing models.

Today, 5G has been applied in over 1,000 projects in more than 20 industries including steel and mining, enabling safer and more efficient production. Chinese operators have made great progress and are entering the phase of taking early successes and replicating them at scale.

"We've learned from Chinese operators' experience that the success of 5GtoB depends on three factors," said Ding. "First, selecting the right industries. Operators should choose target industries by looking at four factors: demand, affordability, replicability, and technical feasibility. Second, defining the scope of your offerings. Operators can serve as network providers that offer connectivity services. They can also serve as cloud service providers, or even system integrators that provide end-to-end integration services. Different roles require different skillsets and yield different business value. Third, designing innovative business models. This is key to replicating 5GtoB success at scale."

During the pandemic, there is a growing demand for home broadband, and this has highlighted the advantages of 5G FWA that enables rapid deployment and contactless O&M. Middle East operators have achieved remarkable commercial success by taking FWA as a key use case of 5G.

More than business: Huawei keeps innovating to drive industry-wide sustainability

"5G success first requires a 5G network that provides the best user experience, and this guides how we innovate at Huawei," said Ding. Huawei has launched the industry's lightest and most powerful Massive MIMO that consumes less energy. It can be carried and installed by just one person, which speeds up network deployment. With Huawei's Optical Cross-Connect (OXC), one sub-rack can replace nine cabinets normally needed. It has four times larger capacity, but uses 95% less power. Huawei's 5G Super Uplink solution combines the advantages of 2.1 GHz and 3.5 GHz to enhance uplink capacity and indoor coverage. This solution provides a peak uplink rate of over 450 Mbit/s, enabling hundreds of users to live stream the Xiamen Marathon in 4K in April using their 5G smartphones.

To support green development models and carbon neutrality, according to Ding, Huawei keeps innovating at three levels: equipment, sites, and networks. At the equipment level, Huawei uses components with higher power efficiency to make hardware platforms more energy efficient. At the site level, Huawei's simplified site solutions help operators lower energy consumption, as well as save on electricity and rent. At the network level, Huawei has launched a multi-band and multi-RAT power saving solution. This solution can cut energy consumption in wireless networks without compromising network performance. With Huawei's innovative solution, 5G equipment working in low and high bands can share a cabinet, and as a result, less energy is used. When it comes to multi-band equipment power saving, Huawei's goal is to make one plus one less than one.

Collaborating to create an ecosystem and evolving 5G for a better future

Concluding his keynote, Ding emphasized that 5G development requires ongoing innovation. In 5GtoB, for example, 5G standards need to be coordinated with industry standards at a faster rate, and 5G should be integrated into enterprises' core production processes to help them go digital and intelligent. At the same time, the synergy between 5G, cloud, and computing will further expand the boundaries of operators' business, creating space for new growth. 5G innovation is an ongoing process. Huawei believes that innovation will light up the future.

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Huawei will provide firmware updates for all Honor phones released before April 1 2021 - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com

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Now that Huawei sold off its Honor brand, the company was able to become an independent smartphone brand and will once again release smartphone pre-installed with Google Services. With the company departing from its parent company Huawei, Honor explains exactly how firmware updates will be fulfilled going forward.

Honor View 20 (December 2018)

Honor Finland confirms to i>SuomiMobiili that Huawei will be handling firmware updates to all Honor devices released before April 1 2021 throughout the rest of their life cycles. That means that Honor will be solely responsible to handle its firmware updates for devices it releases after April 1. This means that firmware updates for the new Honor 50 series will be solely handled by Honor. This date is significant since Honor exited Huawei between March and April.

Honor promises to continue to support older devices in Finland, as much as possible, before being referred to Huawei support.

If an consumer is in touch with us, we always help [them] as far as we can before directing [them] to Huawei customer service. We continue to help with matters related to the use of smartphones[…] The intention is to serve both old and new HONOR consumers as well as possible.” – Suvi Surenkin, Honor Marketing Director for Finland and The Baltics.

In addition, Huawei has confirmed that it will continue supporting high-end Honor devices with monthly updates and more affordable devices on a quarterly basis.

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Huawei confirms the Honor 20, 20 Pro, and View 20 will get monthly updates. Meanwhile, Huawei will support the following devices with quarterly security updates through the end of their product cycles:

It’s worth noting that while Huawei may continue to support Honor devices, it does not guarantee that these devices will receive full Android version upgrades, whether that’s Android 11 or Harmony OS. We're glad to hear that the phones will at least be updated with security patches.

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Huawei Mate X2 4G goes on sale in China with HarmonyOS 2.0 out of the box - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com

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Huawei has trouble sourcing 5G components due to the trade war with the US, so the company has taken to re-releasing some of its existing 5G phones as 4G-only models. The latest to take the plunge is the foldable Huawei Mate X2.

The 4G model went on sale in China for the first time today at 10:08 local time. Besides dropping the 5G connectivity, the phone is almost unchanged - it still uses a Kirin 9000 chipset, for example (the 4G version of it, anyway).

There is a small price cut involved too, though it barely makes a scratch on the CNY 17,800 price tag of the Mate X2 5G. The 4G version costs CNY 17,500 on Vmall, that converts to $2,710/€2,275. The CNY 300 price difference ($46 or so) isn’t really noticeable at this scale.

Anyway, connectivity is not the only thing that changed on the Mate X2 4G. Huawei took the opportunity to preload Harmony OS 2.0 on the phone, instead of having it launch with Android 10 as the 5G model did (which is one of the first to get Harmony over the air).

It’s not just the foldable phone either, a few days ago Huawei launched 4G versions of the Mate 40 Pro, Mate 40E and nova8 Pro, all of which originally began life as 5G phones with Android. Yes, the OS was swapped for Harmony on these models as well. They went up on store shelves a few days ago.

The Huawei Mate X2 4G looks identical to the 5G model on the outside

You can still order a Huawei Mate X2 4G from Chinese retailers, though shipping dates have slipped to July 11. It’s not clear if any of these models will be sold abroad.

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MWC Barcelona 2021 – Huawei Day 0 Green Forum "Green ICT for a Green World" - Huawei

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[Barcelona, Spain, June 27, 2021] At Huawei's Day 0 Green Forum at MWC Barcelona 2021, President of Huawei Western Europe David Li stated that Huawei is a strong supporter of the EU's green ambitions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The forum this year focused on how the ICT industry is embracing the EU Green Deal and how digital technologies are contributing to sustainable development in the region, through case studies on green telecom network strategies and key challenges operators face when trying to achieve carbon neutrality.

In his speech at the event, Li focused on how the ICT industry can use green digital telecommunications services to support its customers: "We are supporting other industries to reduce their carbon footprint through ICT solutions. We call this ICT enablement our 'carbon handprint'. The ICT industry's carbon footprint accounts for only about 2% of total emissions. But ICT technologies can be used to reduce total global emissions by up to 20%."

He also mentioned that Huawei believes in using bits to manage watts. Bits are the basic units of digital information and watts the basic units of energy. Using bits to manage watts is to use digital technologies to achieve more efficient energy management. "Integrating digital and energy technologies lets us use new technological advances in AI, connectivity, and cloud computing to digitalize the energy industry."

David Li, President of Western Europe, Huawei gave a welcoming speech at the forum

Many other prominent industry stakeholders in attendance at the event also spoke out about the critical importance of ICT in the region's green plans. European Parliament Member Susana Solís Pérez said, "Practically, every sector can benefit from digital solutions," and Mobile World Capital Barcelona's Head of Digital Future Society Carina Lopes said, "Reaching net-zero carbon emissions is not enough. The ICT and telecoms sector has the power to lead and radically transform our society."

GSMA's head of climate action Steven Moore pointed out that operators depend on green energy to help achieve the targets in other sectors by saying, "Our message to governments: We can't switch to renewables by our own."

CTO of Orange Spain Monica Sala commented that they plan on achieving Orange Group's own carbon neutrality target of 2040 by reducing network energy consumption, increasing the use of renewable energy in their networks, and to rely more on the circular economy. Similarly, Telefónica plans to reach net-zero emissions by 2025, with Telefónica Group Director of Operational Transformation Juan Manuel Caro Bernat explaining, "We will reduce our carbon footprint as much as possible beyond the 1.5°C scenario. And we will neutralize the remaining emissions through CO₂ absorption projects."

Other industry players also spoke out at the event about how advanced ICT technologies are changing the game across multiple industries. The Managing Director of Vantage Towers Spain Blanca Ceña spoke on how they are using Digital Twins to dramatically reduce the need for tower site visits, saying, "We believe that 5G will be a step-change, for the society and for Europe."

James Crawshaw, Principal Analyst of Service Provider Operations & IT at Omdia Informa Tech, explained how carbon reduction is the new focus for ICT industry:

"Carbon reduction becomes the new focus - the industry must save energy and reduce carbon emissions. From the energy saving perspective, the focus is shifting from reducing absolute energy consumption to both energy consumption reduction and energy utilization efficiency enhancement. From the carbon reduction perspective, carbon emission per unit of data service is becoming a new measure for network greenness, and an applicable definition is needed to enable better carbon reduction roadmap management."

Telecom operators have been long-time proponents of global sustainability efforts, with the mobile sector being the first industry vertical to commit to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals back in 2016. Significant work in network transformation is still needed though for operators to reach their zero carbon targets, and today's announcement by Huawei reaffirms their commitment to supporting this process.

MWC Barcelona 2021 runs from June 28 to July 1 in Barcelona, Spain. Huawei will showcase its products and solutions at Stand 1C50 in Hall 1 at Fira Gran Via. For more information, please visit: https://carrier.huawei.com/en/events/mwc2021.

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Huawei FreeBuds 4i, hands on: Affordable wireless noise cancelling earbuds Review - ZDNet

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Wireless earbuds are available at a variety of price points, and it can be tricky to work out which are worth having and which are not. For a list price of £79.99 (inc. VAT, currently discounted to £59.99), Huawei's FreeBuds 4i are a neat and comfortable set of buds with good noise cancelling considering their affordable price. But there are some significant annoyances. 

Huawei claims the FreeBuds 4i deliver 10 hours music listening without noise cancelling, or 7.5h with ANC. For voice calls, the durations are 6.5h without ANC, 5.5 with ANC.

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The Huawei FreeBuds 4i sit in a small oval-shaped plastic case measuring 48.0mm by 1.8mm by 27.5 mm deep, and weighing 36.5g. The case has a flat back so it's stable on a desk or table, and I found it slipped into a jacket pocket or the side-pocket of a rucksack easily. On a desk the USB-C charging case presents itself well. Casing ergonomics really matters, and here it's all good -- except, if I'm being picky, for the lack of a spring release on the lid. 

I was sent a white case and buds, but there are also black and red versions available. The box also includes a nice long charge cable and two pairs of silicone tips, with a third pair already fitted to the buds.  

The design of the 5.5g buds themselves is unremarkable. The stems might be a little long, but not annoyingly so, and the wedge-shaped earpiece made a good fit for my ears. My left ear is not a fan of buds and tends to throw them out or reward me with niggly soreness after a few hours of wear. I experienced neither issue here.  

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Huawei rates the 55mAh buds as good for 10 hours of music playback with noise cancelling disabled, 7.5 hours if it's enabled, and 6.5 hours of voice calls with noise cancelling disabled or 5.5 hours enabled. Boosted from the 215mAh battery inside the case, music playback extends to 22 hours. Ten minutes of charging provides 4 hours of audio. A quick early-morning charge saw me through the day without incident.

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I paired the buds with the Android phone I happened to be testing at the time and the job couldn't be simpler. Activate Bluetooth pairing on your handset, open the charging case, press the pairing button on its side, and almost immediately the deed is done. The controls are straightforward: tap on a bud to play, pause, skip forward and back, and call up voice assist; long press to cycle through ANC on, ANC off and awareness mode. 

I found the tap gestures a little unresponsive, although the tap-and-hold gestures were recognised perfectly every time. There are a couple of other annoyances. Volume has to be controlled on the source device and playback continues when a bud is removed from the ear, so this too has to be adjusted on the source device. It's also irritating that there's no app in the Google Play store for fine control, such as making equaliser settings. This is due to the fact that Huawei no longer has access to Google apps. There is an app, available to owners of Huawei handsets, on its own AppGallery, but I was not testing on a Huawei handset, so that wasn't an option. 

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In general I found the quality of music playback acceptable, if not exceptional. Talk radio and calls were fine, as was general background music while thinking about something else. But when I focused on listening to music the lack of bass tones became apparent. I also found the buds just a bit too quiet for use while out and about -- listening to the radio while on a walk or run, for example.  

Good case and bud design and respectable battery life are offset by somewhat unreliable touch controls and a lack of bass tones for serious music listening. Still, Huawei fans with access to its app store might find them an attractive purchase.

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Huawei Releases 5G Series Products to Expand Multi-Antenna Technology to All Bands and Scenarios - Huawei

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[Barcelona, June 28, 2021] At the 2021 Mobile World Congress (MWC 2021) in Barcelona, Huawei launched a series of 5G products and solutions oriented to "1+N" 5G target networks. Supercharged by industry-leading innovation, these products and solutions will help promote multi-antenna technology to all bands and all scenarios to build leading 5G networks.

#1 Industry's Only 400 MHz Ultra-Wideband 64T64R Massive MIMO

Huawei put together leading technologies and algorithms in ultra-wideband radio and power amplifies to launch the industry's only Massive MIMO product that supports both 64T64R and 400 MHz bandwidth. This new product supports the entire C-band, enabling operators to deploy their multi-segment spectrum on just one module to reduce the number of devices. Furthermore, this product balances huge bandwidth and high capacity so that one module can be shared by multiple operators. This allows them to overcome the insufficient spectrum that may occur in single-operator cases and greatly improves user experience, while also considerably reducing the footprint and site power consumption of antenna modules compared with separate deployments.

#2 Industry's Lightest 64T64R Massive MIMO

Light-weight base stations ease installation and take up less space to contribute to a lower construction cost. Huawei's 64T64R Massive MIMO product is the lightest of its kind, with a single module weighing as little as 19 kg. By continuously innovating in Massive MIMO engineering, Huawei's new 64T products can be transported and installed with just one person while also delivering on performance, significantly improving construction efficiency.

#3 BladeAAU Pro: Industry's Only 64T A+P Solution

Huawei's BladeAAU integrates active and passive antennas into a single box, making it the first choice for single-pole scenarios. It is the optimal approach for overcoming scenarios with limited space, which have become a common headache among operators worldwide. BladeAAU has made it easier for operators in Switzerland to acquire new sites and rapidly deploy 5G networks. By supporting a higher mounting height, BladeAAU has helped operators in China expand coverage and improve 5G user experience. Through continuous innovation, Huawei unveiled its latest BladeAAU Pro — the only one of its kind that is 64T capable while maintaining a high level of A+P integration. The active module is improved with 64 channels over the previous 32 and support for a 320 W transmit power and 200 MHz bandwidth, which provide extra flexibility for operators to meet higher capacity. The passive module is also improved with port specifications further upgraded to 2L6H to facilitate full sub-3GHz coverage.

#4 BladeRRU Pro: Industry's Only RF Unit That Supports Three Low and Three Medium Bands

Efficient use of fragmented sub-3 GHz spectrum has become a common challenge for global operators. With traditional RF solutions, one band corresponds to one module, which aggravates the insufficient antenna space, difficult site acquisition, and high cost of deployment and maintenance. Huawei's BladeRRU Pro is the first to integrate three low bands/three medium bands, reducing the required number of FDD RRUs for full-band coverage by two thirds and making investments in multi-band deployment more efficient. The low-frequency integration module has been adopted commercially in multiple countries. Huawei provides a SingleCell software solution for BladeRRU Pro to coordinate scheduling between low and medium bands, enabling more resources to serve low-band UEs at cell edges. Commercial use of the solution at multiple sites showed that SingleCell can nearly double the average seen in experience indicators for these UEs.

#5: Industry's Only Commercial FDD Massive MIMO

Though Massive MIMO has already been successfully commercialized on TDD bands to ensure premium experience and high capacity in 5G networks, FDD Massive MIMO is struggling amid the challenge to balance device dimensions, weight, and performance. Therefore, to help the operators who have limited or no high TDD bandwidths and those that face tremendous pressure to increase capacity, Huawei has launched the industry's first commercial FDD Massive MIMO products by combining innovative Meta-material array design and ultra-miniature passive intermodulation (PIM)-free filter technology. The FDD Massive MIMO device is less than 500 mm in width but carries engineering specifications comparable to those of TDD Massive MIMO. Its cell capacity is five to six times higher than 4T4R while providing similar in-depth coverage performance as that of sub-1 GHz bands.

Yang Chaobin, President of Huawei Wireless Product Line, said: "By launching this series, we aim to bring multi-antenna technology to all scenarios and bands. Several products within the solutions are one-of-a-kind and will help operators efficiently deploy 5G networks and provide first-rate experience. Huawei will work with global partners to innovate and share 5G benefits with all."

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Huawei should not be forced to make its own semiconductors - Nikkei Asia

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Nina Xiang is the founder of China Money Network, a media platform tracking China's venture and tech sectors. She is author of "Red AI: Victories and Warnings From China's Rise in Artificial Intelligence."

Huawei Technologies began building backup systems to prepare for potential U.S. sanctions decades ago. One thing it did not do was build its own fab, otherwise known as a semiconductor fabrication plant or foundry.

This has turned out to be a devastating mistake. After tightening U.S. restrictions cut Huawei off from third-party fabs last May, the Chinese telecommunication giant's smartphone shipments could drop more than 60% this year, while its industry-leading chip design unit HiSilicon has quickly fallen behind its rivals. HiSilicon shipments fell 88% during the first quarter of 2021.

There are many reasons why Huawei did not build its own fab.

Firstly, the company grossly underestimated the rigor of U.S. actions blocking Huawei's access to advanced tech. For example, changing the de minimis thresholds -- which specify which goods are subject to U.S. duties -- from equipment containing more than 25% U.S.-made technology to equipment containing any U.S. technology.

The actions also vastly broadened the range of products inaccessible to Huawei, leading Huawei to lose the ability to contract third-party manufacturers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) to produce the advanced chips it needed.

Moreover, in the heyday of its successful growth, it made little economic sense for Huawei to build its own fabrication plant. In 2010, Huawei made $3.6 billion net profit on revenues of $28 billion.

That year, TSMC's regular R&D budget was nearly $1 billion and its capital expenditures were nearly $6 billion. Huawei's scale was not enough to support the massive capital expenditure and research costs associated with advanced chip manufacturing. When Samsung Electronics entered the fab business in the 1970s, costs were far less prohibitive.

The most fundamental reason that Huawei never entered the chipmaking business was that Huawei was simply acting logically as a commercial entity in accordance with industry trends. The period between 1991, when Huawei started developing semiconductors for its telecommunication products, to the late 2010s, when trends reversed, saw a major industry transition.

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During these two decades, the idea of having separate fabs tasked to make chips for chip design companies became mainstream after initially being rejected. When HiSilicon was established in 2004 as a fabless entity, Huawei could not have foreseen how it would one day become the biggest victim to what was then an industry norm.

In fact, this can be extended to other Chinese tech arenas. Why did not China build its own computer operating system? Why did not China make its own advanced machine tools or lithography machines?

While there were external factors such as a Western tech blockade, the basic reality is that China's tech development was essentially a factor of China being integrated into the global supply chain. The mainstream thinking in China was that after initially serving as an assembly center and manufacturer of low-end products, the country would slowly move up the value chain.

In semiconductors, for instance, China first established itself as a center for testing and packaging, the most labor-intensive but least value-added segment in the semiconductor supply chain. After the turn of the century, Beijing initiated policies to promote chip design and chip manufacturing in a bid to climb up to higher value-added segments.

The policies were designed on the premise of globalized supply chains. Beijing gave more support for fabless companies, which were categorized as software companies and enjoyed more comprehensive policy incentives such as preferential interest rates and funding for training.

In addition, the policy offered import tax incentives for imported chips manufactured by foreign fabs but designed by domestic companies when such chips could not be made by domestic Chinese companies.

In other words, Chinese policies reinforced the globalized supply chain by further bundling Chinese chip designers with foreign chip manufacturers. The indirect outcome was that it created an almost impossible market environment for Chinese fabs to advance technologically because their most likely clients -- Chinese chip designers -- were incentivized to contract out to foreign fabs.

In parallel, the adoption of the globalized supply chains led to the dominant position of Chinese makers of things like televisions, air conditioners, refrigerators, computers and telephones, but also led to deeply bundled companies that are reliant on imported parts.

In hindsight, Chinese tech companies did not focus on self-development as much as they should have during more benign times when they could have built domestic substitutes. Despite Chinese corporations' R&D expenditures growing by 119 times from 1995 to 2019, China is still today heavily reliant on foreign tech, from semiconductors to medical equipment.

As the wisdom of the globalized supply chains is being questioned around the world, China's tech sector, particularly Huawei, has learned its lesson the hard way.

But nations should try to limit the damage to our global supply chains all in the name of national security. If China tech's rise rested on global supply chains, their breakdown would hurt everyone. Huawei did not build its own fab, and it should not be required to do so. Other companies should be spared Huawei's predicament.

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Huawei's 'HiSilicon Factory' to close chipset gap - Asia Times

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Like a steel-eyed gambler in Las Vegas, Beijing is doubling down on its bet.

But they’re not playing for a pot of cash, the prize is bigger, much, much bigger.

And no nation, on this planet of ours, plays the long game better than China.

As the US recently proposed a stricter policy to ban exports to China of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, it’s full speed ahead on designing and building high-end chipsets within the mainland. 

Digitimes reports that Huawei will build its first wafer fabrication manufacturing company in Wuhan, Hubei Province. According to the information, the company is expected to start production in stages from next year.

Sources reveal that this factory initially used to produce optical communication Kirin chips and modules to gain self-sufficiency and keep a good quantity of required chipsets.

Digitimes further claims that this factory will be used to produce optical communication chips and modules to gain self-sufficiency and create microcircuit designs. 

As we all know, HiSilicon, Huawei’s chip designing subsidiary has the capability to design advanced chip designs.

And while Huawei is best known for its telecom equipment dominance, currently the company’s Wuhan-based Research Institute has nearly 10,0000 R&D personnel that mainly research and develop optical communication equipment, HiSilicon chips and even automotive laser radars.

In fact, HiSilicon might be the only company in China that has the ability to develop a coherent optical DSP chipset.

In the proposed plan, Huawei will back the Wuhan HiSilicon factory project with a total of CNY 1.8 billion investment.

Currently, Huawei’s Wuhan-based Research Institute has nearly 10,0000 research and development personnel that mainly researching and developing optical communication equipment, HiSilicon chips, and automotive laser radars. Credit: Handout.

It’s mission — develop its own chipset for smartphones and other IoT devices.

And how is that possible, with China trailing Taiwan and South Korea, in advanced chipset design?

According to an industry insider who spoke to Asia Times, you don’t need to put a 5 nm chip into a laptop because processing is moving back to the center with rapid emergence of 5G.

The key is fast communications, which means, the Chromebook idea could dominate the market in the future.

“You can set up massive parallel processing arrays with 14-28 nm chips that are as fast as you want, and the laptop is simply a dumb terminal for this central processor,” the insider said.

“The importance of the superfast, narrow gateway chips is exaggerated. China can now or soon will be able to produce all the 14-28 nm chips it needs — and that’s 98-99% of the total market.”

China’s 30-year-long semiconductor journey has grown into a major player, accounting for nearly 13% of the global IC design market in 2020. 

Amid the continuing trade and tech standoff with the US, China has been speeding up the development of domestic fabrication plants to localize the most vital elements of the technology supply chain.

In that IC assembly line, a lithography machine is fundamental to the entire manufacturing chain.

China’s “national champion” in the area, Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment (SMEE), which was founded in 2002 by Shanghai Electric Group, is, per some reports, full speed ahead to develop its second-generation deep ultraviolet (DUV) immersion lithography system, which could produce down to 7nm chips with multiple patterning. 

 In 2002, a lithography machine technology research project was first included in China’s National High-tech R&D Program (863 Program). SMEE was founded in the same year.

Its research in the area continued in the “02 Special Project,” along with other 15 National Special Projects published in the National Outlines for Medium and Long-term Planning for Scientific and Technological Development (2006-2020) in 2006.

The 02 Special Project focuses on the extensive circuit integration and peripheral equipment manufacturing, where developing a home-grown lithography machine supply chain was one of the critical tasks.

Since the project was launched, SMEE has gradually become the primary designer and the “integrator” of a plethora of made-in-China lithography equipment components.

By no means, is this a magic carpet ride — China’s chip industry still faces massive challenges and fierce competition.

But to date, SMEE has developed 4 series of lithography machines for IC front-end manufacturing, IC back-end advanced packaging, LED/ MEMS/power devices and TFT circuit manufacturing.

As of June 2021, SMEE’s most advanced device is its “600 series” scanner for IC front-end manufacturing. This machine can be used to build chips at the 90nm, 110nm and 280nm process technologies.

Meanwhile, Huawei is yet to make any official announcement or confirmation on the HiSilicon factory in Wuhan.

“It’s very unlikely that the US will remove us from the Entity List,” billionaire founder Ren Zhengfei said in February at the opening of a mining innovation laboratory partly sponsored by Huawei. “Right now, we just want to work harder and keep looking for new opportunities to survive.”

Sources: Huawei Central, Equal Ocean, Digitimes, MySmartPrice, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg

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Huawei founder says the company must learn from the United States - South China Morning Post

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Huawei P50 4G phones get network access permit; great demand expected - Global Times

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Huawei's much-anticipated P50 4G smartphones, equipped with a self-developed operating system (OS), have been revealed online. Analysts said on Sunday that the new phones will be in great demand, given their hardware advantages, which will greatly boost the HarmonyOS ecosystem and help the company fight back US' crackdowns.

The 4G models of the Huawei P50 series have obtained a permit for network access, and the devices will be equipped with the HarmonyOS, domestic business news portal yicai.com reported, citing information from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). 

Affected by a lack of chip supplies, the launch of the Huawei P50 series, which should have taken place in April, has been delayed and a formal launch date is still unknown. 

Media reports said that Huawei P50 4G variants will use Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 chips, while the upcoming 5G versions will use Huawei's self-developed chips.

"Huawei P50 4G devices are expected to be much sought after, given the reliability of Huawei devices and the country's large user base of 4G smartphones," Zhang Yi, CEO of consulting agency iiMedia Research, told the Global Times on Sunday.

Many consumers may want to experience the HarmonyOS as well as Qualcomm's flagship chip, if the new devices are indeed equipped with the Snapdragon 888, Zhang said, adding that Huawei smartphones retain great advantages in hardware and camera capacity.

Customers visit a Huawei store in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian Province. Photo: cnsphoto

Latest data from the MIIT showed that the number of 5G mobile services users in China has exceeded 350 million, but that was still small compared with around 1.29 billion 4G users as of the end of 2020.

It's not surprising that Huawei has rolled out 4G devices at a time when there is a short supply of key components due to a crackdown by the US, Fu Liang, a veteran telecom industry analyst, told the Global Times on Sunday. 

Fu said that the move will help Huawei maintain the vigor of its smartphone business while also moving forward in building its HarmonyOS ecosystem.

According to a report by global industry research firm Counterpoint, in the first quarter of 2021, Vivo and Oppo topped the domestic smartphone market with shares of 24 and 23 percent, respectively. Huawei and Xiaomi were tied for third place with market shares of 15 percent, followed by Apple with 13 percent.

On June 2, Huawei launched the 2.0 version of its self-developed HarmonyOS for smartphones as part of a move to combat the US' crackdown. 

Huawei said that about 300 million smart devices will be installed with the HarmonyOS by the end of 2021, with about 200 million being Huawei-made devices.

Huawei's capability and flexibility in rapidly pivoting to new services to gain a foothold - from smartphones to the HarmonyOS, to smart cars and cloud computing - make it increasingly insulated against Western countries' blockade, Fu said.

The company's breakthrough in the HarmonyOS ecosystem will help it circumvent the US' restrictions on higher-end chip exports, as the new system will boost the research and development of a new generation of chips, Zhang said, noting that China's consumer electronics sector may be able to break the US' crackdown in just several years.

Huawei's founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei stressed that the company will continue to learn from the US in science and technology, even under the shadow of US sanctions, according to a new press release about an internal meeting with the company's employees last month.

China is part of the world, so Huawei's globalization strategy includes localization, Ren said, adding that Huawei will always remain open-minded and ready to learn from other countries.

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Huawei's Ren tells employees to learn from the US, refusing self-seclusion - Global Times

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Huawei Technologies will continue to learn from the US in science and technology even under the shadow of US sanctions and assaults, Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei said at a meeting with the company's outstanding employees of 2020 last month, and the speech was released to the public on Saturday.

Ren emphasized the importance of keeping learning from the US when responding to an employee's question that whether Huawei should shift to technology independence in the future due to the US sanctions.

As an outward looking nation, the adherence to globalization also includes some level of localization, said Ren, although Huawei shall always keep open-minded and learn from other countries, and, the Chinese tech giant will continuously learn from the US in science and technology, as the US has formed a flexible workable mechanism in the past century.

"We should not think that the US is no longer a teacher, or refuse to learn from that country simply because it suppresses us, which will only lead us to self-seclusion," said Ren. 

Ren pointed out the significance of cooperating with others with sincerity in response to an employee's concerns of the increasing obstacles when contacting with foreign suppliers.  

"Work is inherently difficult, our value is reflected if we can achieve something that others cannot do it," said Ren.

In terms of the development and construction of 5G, Ren explained that 5G is not a panacea, as the development of the technology will take its course. 

The growth of any new technology requires a long process, 5G is not a panacea which requires a process for its development, it will takes about 10 years for a new generation technology to mature in the information industry, he said.

"We have just entered this market, and the application value of 5G has yet to be fully explored and made use of in the future, so its value cannot be shown so quickly in a short time," according to Ren.

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Huawei dev flamed for 'useless' Linux kernel code contributions - The Register

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Updated Last week, Linux kernel contributor Qu Wenruo scolded another code donor, Zhen Lei, for wasting kernel maintainers' time with unnecessary patches.

In a post to Zhen Lei and the rest of the Linux kernel mailing list, Wenruo said he recently found a patch removing a debug out-of-memory error message from a selftest used by btrfs, a file system supported by the Linux kernel.

"It's nothing special, some small cleanup work from some kernel newbie," wrote Wenruo. "But the mail address makes me cautious, '@huawei.com'."

This is not the first time similar harmless "cleanup" patches have come from Huawei, said Wenruo, who observed those fixes were also "useless."

"This makes me wonder, what is really going on here," he wrote, noting that a quick search found a number of patches to "cleanup" out-of-memory error messages or to fix misspellings.

Wenruo's theory is that Zhen Lei submitted this inconsequential patch for Key Performance Indicator (KPI) credit – to do something that gets recognized by an employee performance measurement system as meaningful work.

Wenruo said it's fine for new developers and students to submit these sorts of patches, noting that he started his kernel contributions in the same way and that he hopes these small patches will lead to long term contributions.

I have already seen several maintainers arguing with you on such 'cleanups,' and you're always defending yourself to try to get those patches merged

"But what you guys are doing is really KPI grabbing," he said. "I have already seen several maintainers arguing with you on such 'cleanups,' and you're always defending yourself to try to get those patches merged."

"You're sending the patch representing your company, by doing this you're really just damaging the already broken reputation."

Wenruo's response may seem overly harsh – we asked a Linux maintainer whether the upbraid is consistent with the Linux Code of Conduct but haven't heard back. However, the Linux kernel community in April had a bad experience with researchers from the University of Minnesota who submitted "hypocrite commits" – shoddy code – to test whether maintainers were paying attention. The backlash underscored how much work volunteers contribute and how much they resent it when their time is wasted.

The Register asked Zhen Lei to comment but we've not heard back.

In an email to The Register, Wenruo said, "Some Chinese tech companies are really pushing too hard by assigning almost impossible KPI goals, I think that's the root cause."

"This pushes their employees to do things without using their common sense. And obviously toxic company culture like 996 (9am to 9pm, 6 days a week) and destructive competition."

"I hope there will be less and less incidents like this, but without addressing the root cause, it's just a time of problem to hit the next incident."

Wenruo said as far as he was concerned, the University of Minnesota affair didn't play into this.

"The Minnesota incident is at least harder to detect, as those 'fixes' look like real fixes at a quick glance, only when digging deeper it shows some problems," he said. "But in the Huawei incident, it's pretty simple, all the 'cleanups' are just generated from checkpatch.pl script."

Wenrou said he found the author's reply annoying and wished the author just saved maintainers' time by making clear that the 'cleanup' commits are just warnings from checkpatch.pl.

Zhen Lei did respond, however, on the mailing list, defending past kernel contributions and promising that subsequent contributions to the Linux community will be more consequential.

And in response to that, Wenruo offered a list of projects that would be more helpful to tackle.

The involvement of Huawei, which released its own Linux distribution and has become an IT policy flashpoint in the US and Europe over concerns about supply chain integrity and government spying, has made this dispute a matter of interest among software developers in China.

On Chinese Q&A site Zhihu, an individual purporting to be a Red Hat engineer dissected the mailing list exchange. Insofar as the discussion can be deciphered via algorithmic translation, the person making the post argues that the Huawei shouldn't even figure into the discussion because commits of this sort and concern about them happens all the time. Those responding to the post argue that if a Google employee made a similar commit that person would be lionized.

We also contacted Huawei, one of the top two contributors in the Linux v5.10 release alongside Intel, to ask whether the telecom equipment titan counts commits for KPI assessment of employees. A spokesperson in the US said she'd look into it but cautioned that the need to communicate with global teams might preclude an immediate response. ®

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In an email to The Register after this story was published, Linux maintainer David Sterba confirmed there is an issue in the kernel's community with inconsequential contributions.

“I’d say yes that there are contributions that are too trivial and come in large numbers,” he said. “I myself would not connect it to something like KPI. I wasn’t familiar with that term before, but patch count boosting happens from time to time and is no that hard to spot.”

Sterba said that typically what happens is that people are encouraged to find less trivial ways to contribute once they’re comfortable with the patch sending workflow.

“Counting patches is perhaps the simplest contribution metric and it’s not news that companies may be using just that to measure performance of employees or to show up high in the kernel contribution stats (e.g. periodically published by LWN),” he said.

Sterba expressed doubt that Wenruo’s admonition would run afoul of the Linux Code of Conduct.

“I don’t think it’s in conflict with CoC, I’d reserve that for serious issues,” he said. “For me it’s been on the technical grounds, but there have been some repetitive patterns that ask for feedback regarding the motivations and perhaps to be more explicit about the stance of (part of) the community.”

Interest in this particular exchange, he suggested, had little to do with the University of Minnesota incident and more to do with the contributor’s ties to Huawei.

“I don’t think much changed after that incident,” he said. “It caused some extra work, for me personally it was ‘just another patch’. This time it’s calling out some big company. The perception is different inside China and in the rest of the world, so this maybe makes it interesting. Other than mentioning the KPI and reputation, it’s the type of general advice that anybody can get.”

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Huawei confirmed just a couple of days ago that the brand new nova 8i smartphone is headed to Southeast Asia and also disclosing a few major specs. Aside from the brief description of the design, we still don't have a good look at it. Until now, that is.

An official-looking render of the handset appeared online, courtesy of Playfuldroid, showing part of the back design. And as expected, the phone adopts a Mate 30 Pro-like look with a circular camera module carrying four shooters and an LED flash positioned next to it.

It may be due to the render itself, but the back glass looks more curved than usual and the side frame is pretty thin too. The volume rocker and the power button, which most certainly doubles as a fingerprint reader too, are placed on the right side next to each other.

The pictured color is likely the Moonlight Silver leaving the Starry Black and Interstellar Blue a mystery for now. The front design also remains unknown, but Playfuldroid said in the previous report that it would adopt a punch-hole cutout for the front-facing camera in the upper-left corner of the screen.

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Canada court rejects Huawei CFO push for publication ban on new evidence in U.S. extradition case - Reuters

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VANCOUVER, June 25 (Reuters) - Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's request for a publication ban on new evidence her legal team received from HSBC has been denied by a Canadian court in her U.S. extradition case, a lawyer involved in the case said on Friday.

Meng, 49, was arrested in December 2018 for allegedly misleading HSBC (HSBA.L) about Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's (HWT.UL) business dealings in Iran, causing the bank to break U.S. sanctions.

She faces a Canadian government extradition attempt on charges of bank fraud in the United States.

Canadian prosecutors had fought her request for a publication ban on documents relevant to her case received from HSBC via a court in Hong Kong. The documents were provided on the condition that Meng make a reasonable effort to keep them private. read more

The British Columbia Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the request, said Daniel Coles, the legal counsel representing a consortium of media outlets - including Reuters - who argued against the publication ban.

The reasons for the denial were not made public, pending issues relating to a previous publication ban, Coles said.

Prosecutors representing the Canadian government had argued that "to be consistent with the open court principle, a ban must be tailored" and details should be selectively redacted from the public, rather than the whole documents.

Meng has been under house arrest in Vancouver for more than two years and fighting her extradition. Meng has said she is innocent.

Alykhan Velshi, vice president of corporate affairs at Huawei Canada, said in an emailed statement the company accepts the court's decision, adding that "the truth in these documents can now come out."

The Canadian government and HSBC were not immediately available for comment.

The open court principle requires that court proceedings be open and accessible to the public and to the media.

It is unclear what documents Huawei obtained from HSBC, but defense lawyers argue they are relevant to Meng's case. Hearings in the extradition case are scheduled to finish in late August.

Reporting by Moira Warburton in Toronto; Editing by Howard Goller

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Huawei BladeAAU Pro Takes Home Both iF and Red Dot Design Awards - Huawei

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[Hannover and Essen, Germany, June 26, 2020] The winners of the iF Design Award and the Red Dot Design Award were announced. Huawei's BladeAAU Pro won both of the two prestigious design awards for its excellent design. It is the only base station product that was feted with both of the awards, showing that Huawei's industrial design and equipment engineering capabilities as well as the overall strengths of products are recognized in the industry.

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BladeAAU integrates active and passive modules into a single box to ensure a high integration while also providing a powerful performance, enabling operators to deploy 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G technologies on a single pole. Since the launch of its first generation in 2019, it has become the first choice of global operators for network construction in single-pole scenarios.

Unveiled in October 2020, BladeAAU Pro is a new-generation product of this series. It takes both integration and performance to new heights.

• Improved active antennas with channels increased from 32 to 64 to provide higher capacity.
• Improved passive antennas with port specifications further upgraded to empower all-band deployments in the future.
• Improved performance but with the same dimensions, and support for both split and integrated installation to ensure flexibility in adapting to various scenarios.

BladeAAU series has been put into large-scale commercial use in many countries. For example, it has helped operators in Switzerland simplify site acquisition and quickly deploy 5G networks. In China, it has helped operators expand wireless coverage and improve 5G user experience by supporting an increased mounting height.

As commented by the judges, the Blade AAU Pro can be installed easily and flexibly and can be maintained with just one tool. Moreover, the clear design impresses with a well-thought-out color scheme.

Ma Hongbo, President of Huawei's SingleRAN Product Line of Wireless Networks, said: "Winning both the iF Design Award and the Red Dot Design Award shows that Huawei's simplified design concept is recognized in the industry. This also reflects Huawei's expertise in engineering design and technological innovation of base stations. Huawei will continue to innovate toward enabling operators to quickly and cost-effectively deploy high-quality 5G networks."

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Sweden court upholds 5G sales ban against Chinese telecom giant Huawei - JURIST

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The Stockholm Administrative Court on Tuesday upheld a 5G equipment sales ban against Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies. The Swedish telecom regulator, the Post and Telecom Authority (PTS), had banned the company and its Chinese counterpart, Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Corporation (ZTE), in October last year citing security concerns raised by the Swedish intelligence services.

PTS had also formulated two conditions for applicants to its spectrum auctions in the 3.5 GHz and 2.3 GHz bands, which are central to the development of the country’s 5G network. PTS’ terms required that new installations cannot be carried out with Huawei products and a phase-out of Huawei products from existing infrastructure must be completed before 1 January 2025.

Huawei had appealed the PTS decision before the Stockholm administrative court in November and argued that the arbitrary conditions for suppliers to 5G network operators should be removed. The Stockholm court granted Huawei a partial injunction on the PTS decision owing to the ban’s potential to cause extensive financial and goodwill damage. PTS had appealed this judgment before the Court of Appeal which revoked the injunction and held that the regulator can continue to apply its conditions for 5G network expansion despite the judicial review pending before the Stockholm administrative court.

Now that the Stockholm court has announced its verdict, the telecom giant still has an option to appeal before the Court of Appeal. However, with other countries like France, Germany, UK and Italy increasingly limiting its participation in their 5G rollouts, the company appears to have several battles ahead before it can make its mark in the European market.

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Canada court rejects Huawei CFO push for publication ban on new evidence in U.S. extradition case - Yahoo Finance

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VANCOUVER (Reuters) -Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's request for a publication ban on new evidence her legal team received from HSBC has been denied by a Canadian court in her U.S. extradition case, a lawyer involved in the case said on Friday.

Meng, 49, was arrested in December 2018 for allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's business dealings in Iran, causing the bank to break U.S. sanctions.

She faces a Canadian government extradition attempt on charges of bank fraud in the United States.

Canadian prosecutors had fought her request for a publication ban on documents relevant to her case received from HSBC via a court in Hong Kong. The documents were provided on the condition that Meng make a reasonable effort to keep them private.

The British Columbia Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the request, said Daniel Coles, the legal counsel representing a consortium of media outlets - including Reuters - who argued against the publication ban.

The reasons for the denial were not made public, pending issues relating to a previous publication ban, Coles said.

Prosecutors representing the Canadian government had argued that "to be consistent with the open court principle, a ban must be tailored" and details should be selectively redacted from the public, rather than the whole documents.

Meng has been under house arrest in Vancouver for more than two years and fighting her extradition. Meng has said she is innocent.

Alykhan Velshi, vice president of corporate affairs at Huawei Canada, said in an emailed statement the company accepts the court's decision, adding that "the truth in these documents can now come out."

The Canadian government and HSBC were not immediately available for comment.

The open court principle requires that court proceedings be open and accessible to the public and to the media.

It is unclear what documents Huawei obtained from HSBC, but defense lawyers argue they are relevant to Meng's case. Hearings in the extradition case are scheduled to finish in late August.

(Reporting by Moira Warburton in Toronto; Editing by Howard Goller)

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The Huawei nova 8i is a brand new phone confirmed to be released in Southeast Asia. The design of the handset is reminiscent of the Mate 30 Pro rather than the nova 8 5G, for example. Spec-wise, it's going to be positioned in the mid-range segment and aims to attract the young audience.

The handset itself is built around a 6.67-inch IPS LCD panel with FHD+ resolution and covers the full DCI-P3 color gamut. The display has a punch-hole for the front-facing camera. A Snapdragon 662 chipset is running the show coupled with a 4,300 mAh battery supporting Huawei's 66W SuperCharge. This should be enough to top up the battery in 38 minutes from flat.

The circular module on the back holds a 64MP main camera with f/1.9 aperture and is joined by an 8MP f/2.4 ultrawide camera and two more 2MP sensors - one used for depth information while the other is used for macro shots.

The phone will ship with EMUI 11 based on Android 10 out of the box but should be eligible for an update to HarmonyOS in the future.

The available colors are Moonlight Silver, Starry Black and Interstellar Blue. No specifics about a release date or pricing have been given, nor do we have any official images to share.

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