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Industry | Telecom equipment Networking equipment Consumer electronics |
Founded | 1987; 32 years ago |
Founder | Ren Zhengfei |
Headquarters | Shenzhen, Guangdong , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Liang Hua (chairman) Ren Zhengfei (CEO) Meng Wanzhou (CFO) | |
Products | Mobile and fixed broadband networks, consultancy and managed services, multimedia technology, smartphones, tablet computers, dongles |
Revenue | CN¥721.202 billion US$105.191 billion (2018) |
CN¥73.287 billion US$10.689 billion (2018) | |
CN¥59.345 billion US$8.656 billion (2018) | |
Total assets | CN¥665.792 billion US$97.109 billion (2018) |
Total equity | CN¥233.065 billion US$33.994 billion (2018) |
Number of employees | 188,000 (2018) |
Subsidiaries | HiSilicon |
Website | www.huawei.com/en/ |
Footnotes / references [1] |
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (/ˈhwɑːˌweɪ/; simplified Chinese: 华为; traditional Chinese: 華為; pinyin: Huáwéi) is a Chinese multinational technology company that provides telecommunications equipment and sells consumer electronics, including smartphones,[2] headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei. Initially focused on manufacturing phone switches, Huawei has expanded its business to include building telecommunications networks, providing operational and consulting services and equipment to enterprises inside and outside of China, and manufacturing communications devices for the consumer market.[3][4] Huawei had over 188,000 employees as of September 2018, around 76,000 of them engaged in Research & Development (R&D).[5][6] It has 21 R&D institutes around the world,[7][8] and in the late 2010s, opened the dedicated Ox Horn Campus. As of 2017, the company invested US$13.8 billion in R&D.[9][10]
Huawei has deployed its products and services in more than 170 countries, and as of 2011 it served 45 of the 50 largest telecom operators.[11][need quotation to verify] Its networks, numbering over 1,500, reach one third of the world's population.[12] Huawei overtook Ericsson in 2012 as the largest telecommunications-equipment manufacturer in the world,[13] and overtook Apple in 2018 as the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world, behind Samsung Electronics.[14] It ranks 72nd on the Fortune Global 500 list.[15] In December 2018, Huawei reported that its annual revenue had risen to US$108.5 billion in 2018 (a 21% increase over 2017).[16]
Although successful internationally, Huawei has faced difficulties in some markets, due to cybersecurity allegations—primarily from the United States government—that Huawei's infrastructure equipment may enable surveillance by the Chinese government. Especially with the development of 5G wireless networks (which China has aggressively promoted), there have been calls from the U.S. to prevent use of products by Huawei or fellow Chinese telecom ZTE by the U.S. or its allies. Huawei has argued that its products posed 'no greater cybersecurity risk' than those of any other vendor, and that there is no evidence of the U.S. espionage claims.[17] Nonetheless, Huawei pulled out of the U.S. consumer market in 2018, after these concerns affected the ability to market their consumer products there.
U.S. measures intensified in May 2019, when Huawei was restricted from doing commerce with U.S. companies due to previous wilful violations of U.S. sanctions against Iran.
- 2History
- 2.4Political controversies
- 3Corporate affairs
- 4Partners and customers
- 5Products and services
- 5.3Devices
- 6Competitive position
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The name Huawei literally translates to 'China be achieving'; Hua means 'China', while wei means 'achievement'[18]. In Chinese pinyin, it is Huáwéi,[19] and pronounced [xwǎwéi] in Mandarin Chinese; in Cantonese, the name is transliterated with Jyutping as Waa4-wai4 and pronounced [wȁːwɐ̏i]. However, pronunciation of Huawei by non-Chinese varies in other countries, for example 'Hua Way' or 'How Wee' in the United States and 'Hoo-uh-why' in the Netherlands.[20] The company had considered changing the name in English as it was concerned that non-Chinese may find the name hard to pronounce,[21] but decided to keep the name, and launched a name recognition campaign instead to encourage a pronunciation closer to 'Wah-Way' using the words 'Wow Way'.[22][23]
History[edit]
Early years[edit]
During the 1980s, the Chinese government tried to modernise the country's underdeveloped telecommunications infrastructure. A core component of the telecommunications network was telephone exchange switches, and in the late 1980s, several Chinese research groups endeavoured to acquire and develop the technology, usually through joint ventures with foreign companies.
Ren Zhengfei, a former deputy director of the People's Liberation Army engineering corps, founded Huawei in 1987 in Shenzhen. The company reports that it had RMB 21,000 in registered capital at the time of its founding.
Ren sought to reverse engineer foreign technologies with local researchers. At a time when all of China's telecommunications technology was imported from abroad, Ren hoped to build a domestic Chinese telecommunication company that could compete with, and ultimately replace, foreign competitors.[24]
During its first several years the company's business model consisted mainly of reselling private branch exchange (PBX) switches imported from Hong Kong. Meanwhile, it was reverse-engineering imported switches and investing heavily in research and development to manufacture its own technologies.[3] By 1990 the company had approximately 600 R&D staff, and began its own independent commercialisation of PBX switches targeting hotels and small enterprises.[25]
The company's first major breakthrough came in 1993, when it launched its C&C08 program controlled telephone switch. It was by far the most powerful switch available in China at the time. By initially deploying in small cities and rural areas and placing emphasis on service and customizability, the company gained market share and made its way into the mainstream market.[26]
Huawei also gained a key contract to build the first national telecommunications network for the People's Liberation Army, a deal one employee described as 'small in terms of our overall business, but large in terms of our relationships'.[27] In 1994, founder Ren Zhengfei had a meeting with Party general secretary Jiang Zemin, telling him that 'switching equipment technology was related to national security, and that a nation that did not have its own switching equipment was like one that lacked its own military.' Jiang reportedly agreed with this assessment.[3]
In the 1990s Canadian telecom giant Nortel outsourced production of their entire product line to Huawei.[28] They subsequently outsourced much of their product engineering to Huawei as well.[29]
Another major turning point for the company came in 1996, when the government in Beijing adopted an explicit policy of supporting domestic telecommunications manufacturers and restricting access to foreign competitors. Huawei was promoted by both the government and the military as a national champion, and established new research and development offices.[3]
Foreign expansion[edit]
In 1997, Huawei won a contract to provide fixed-line network products to Hong Kong company Hutchison Whampoa.[26] Later that year, Huawei launched its wireless GSM-based products and eventually expanded to offer CDMA and UMTS. In 1999, the company opened a research and development (R&D) center in Bangalore, India to develop a wide range of telecom software.[25]
In May 2003, Huawei partnered with 3Com on a joint venture known as H3C, which was focused on enterprise networking equipment. It marked 3Com's re-entrance into the high-end core routers and switch market, after having abandoned it in 2000 to focus on other businesses. 3Com bought out Huawei's share of the venture in 2006 for US$882 million.[30][31]
In 2005, Huawei's foreign contract orders exceeded its domestic sales for the first time. Huawei signed a Global Framework Agreement with Vodafone. This agreement marked the first time a telecommunications equipment supplier from China had received Approved Supplier status from Vodafone Global Supply Chain. [32][non-primary source needed] Huawei also signed a contract with British Telecom (BT) for the deployment of its multi-service access network (MSAN) and Transmission equipment for BT's 21st Century Network (21CN).[citation needed]
In 2007, Huawei began a joint venture with U.S. security software vendor Symantec Corporation, known as Huawei Symantec, which aimed to provide end-to-end solutions for network data storage and security. Huawei bought out Symantec's share in the venture in 2012, with The New York Times noting that Symantec had fears that the partnership 'would prevent it from obtaining United States government classified information about cyberthreats'.[33]
In May 2008, Australian carrier Optus announced that it would establish a technology research facility with Huawei in Sydney.[34] In October 2008, Huawei reached an agreement to contribute to a new GSM-based HSPA+ network being deployed jointly by Canadian carriers Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility, joined by Nokia Siemens Networks.[35] Huawei delivered one of the world's first LTE/EPC commercial networks for TeliaSonera in Oslo, Norway in 2009.[25]
In July 2010, Huawei was included in the Global Fortune 500 2010 list published by the U.S. magazine Fortune for the first time, on the strength of annual sales of US$21.8 billion and net profit of US$2.67 billion.[36][37]
In October 2012, it was announced that Huawei would move its UK headquarters to Green Park, Reading, Berkshire.[38]
In September 2017, Huawei created a NarrowBand IOT city-aware network using a 'one network, one platform, N applications' construction model utilising IoT, cloud computing, big data, and other next-generation information and communications technology, it also aims to be one of the world's five largest cloud players in the near future.[39][40]
Recent performance[edit]
As of the end of 2018, Huawei sold 200 million smartphones.[41] They reported that strong consumer demand for premium range smart phones helped the company reach consumer sales in excess of $52 billion in 2018.[42]
Huawei announced worldwide revenues of $105.1 billion for 2018, with a net profit of $8.7 billion.[43] Huawei's Q1 2019 revenues were up 39% year-over-year, at US$26.76 billion.[44]
Political controversies[edit]
Huawei has been at the centre of espionage allegations over Chinese 5G network equipment. In 2018, the United States passed a defense funding bill that contained a passage barring the federal government from doing business with Huawei, ZTE, and several Chinese vendors of surveillance products, due to security concerns.[45][46][47]
On 1 December 2018, Huawei vice-chairwoman and CFO Meng Wanzhou,[48] daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested in Canada at the request of U.S. authorities. She faced extradition to the United States on charges of violating sanctions against Iran.[49] 22 August 2018 arrest warrant was issued by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.[50]Meng was charged with 'conspiracy to defraud multiple international institutions', according to the prosecutor.[51] The warrant was based on allegations of a conspiracy to defraud banks which were clearing money that was claimed to be for Huawei, but was actually for Skycom, an entity claimed to be entirely controlled by Huawei, which was said to be dealing in Iran, contrary to sanctions. None of the allegations have been proven in court.[52] On 11 December 2018, Meng was released on bail.[53]
On 28 January 2019, U.S. federal prosecutors formally indicted Meng and Huawei with thirteen counts of bank and wire fraud (in order to mask sale of U.S. technology in Iran that is illegal under sanctions), obstruction of justice, and misappropriating trade secrets.[54][55] The Department also filed a formal extradition request for Meng with Canadian authorities that same day. Huawei responded to the charges and said that it 'denies that it or its subsidiary or affiliate have committed any of the asserted violations', as well as asserted Meng was similarly innocent. The China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology believed the charges brought on by the United States were 'unfair'.[56]
U.S. business restrictions[edit]
In August 2018, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (NDAA 2019) was signed into law, containing a provision that banned Huawei and ZTE equipment from being used by the U.S. federal government, citing security concerns.[57] Huawei filed a lawsuit over the act in March 2019,[58] alleging it to be unconstitutional because it specifically targeted Huawei without granting it a chance to provide a rebuttal or due process.[59]
On 15 May 2019, the Department of Commerce added Huawei and 70 foreign subsidiaries and 'affiliates' to its entity list under the Export Administration Regulations, citing the company having been indited for 'knowingly and willfully causing the export, reexport, sale and supply, directly and indirectly, of goods, technology and services (banking and other financial services) from the United States to Iran and the government of Iran without obtaining a license from the Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)'.[60] This restricts U.S. companies from doing business with Huawei without a government license.[61][62][63][64]
Various U.S.-based companies immediately froze their business with Huawei to comply with the regulation,[65] including Google—which removes its ability to certify future devices and updates for the Android operating system with licensed Google Mobile Services (GMS) such as Google Play Store,[66][67] as well as Broadcom, Intel, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Xilinx[68] and Western Digital. The German chipmaker Infineon Technologies also voluntarily suspended its business with Huawei, pending 'assessments'.[67][69][70] It was reported that Huawei did have a limited 'stockpile' of U.S.-sourced parts, obtained prior to the sanctions.[71]
On 17 May 2019, Huawei voluntarily suspended its membership to JEDEC, as a temporary measure, 'until the restrictions imposed by the U.S. government are removed'.[72] Speaking to Chinese media, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei accused U.S. politicians of underestimating the company's strength, and explained that 'in terms of 5G technologies, others won't be able to catch up with Huawei in two or three years. We have sacrificed ourselves and our families for our ideal, to stand on top of the world. To reach this ideal, sooner or later there will be conflict with the US.'[73][74][75]
Huawei cannot use the publicly released open source code that comprises the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). International trade lawyer and former assistant secretary of commerce for export administration during the Obama administration, Kevin Wolf, explained that Huawei would not be allowed to use AOSP, since a considerable part of AOSP is made by Google, which is a US company, and thus, AOSP is subject to US trade regulations.[76] In China, it is normal for Android phones (including those of Huawei) to not include Google Play Store or GMS, as Google does not do business in the region. Phones are typically bundled with an AOSP-based distribution built around an OEM's own software suite, including either a first-party app store run by the OEM (such as Huawei's own AppGallery) or a third-party service.[77][78][79] It was noted that Huawei had been working on its own in-house operating system codenamed 'HongMeng OS': in an interview with Die Welt, executive Richard Yu stated that such an OS could be used as a 'plan B' if it were prevented from using Android or Windows as the result of U.S. action, but that he would 'prefer to work with the ecosystems of Google and Microsoft'. Efforts to develop an in-house OS at Huawei date back as far as 2012.[80][81][82] Huawei has also filed trademarks relating to the names 'Ark' and 'Ark OS' in Europe.[83]
Google issued a statement assuring that user access to Google Play on existing Huawei devices would not be disrupted. Huawei made a similar pledge of continued support for existing devices, including security patches, but did not make any statements regarding the availability of future Android versions (such as the upcoming Android 'Q').[84][85] On 19 May 2019, the Department of Commerce granted Huawei a temporary, three-month license to continue doing business with U.S. companies for the purposes of maintaining its existing smartphone and telecom products without interruption, whilst long-term solutions are determined.[86][87][88][89]
On 22 May 2019, Arm Holdings also suspended its business with Huawei, including all 'active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements'. Although it is a Japanese-owned company based in the UK, Arm cited that its intellectual property contained technologies of U.S. origin that it believed were covered under the Department of Commerce order. This prevents Huawei from manufacturing chips under the ARM architecture.[90] It was also reported that several Asian wireless carriers, including Japan's SoftBank and KDDI, and Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom and Taiwan Mobile, had suspended the sale of upcoming Huawei devices such as the P30 Lite, citing uncertainties over the effects of the U.S. sanctions on the availability of the Android platform. NTT docomo similarly suspended pre-orders of new Huawei phones, without citing any reasoning.[91]
On 23 May 2019, it was reported that the SD Association had removed Huawei from its list of members—implicating a revocation of its membership to the association.[92] The same day, Toshiba briefly suspended all shipments to Huawei, as a temporary measure while Toshiba determines whether or not U.S. made components or technologies are being sold.[93]Panasonic also stated that it had determined its business relationship to be in compliance with U.S. law, and would not suspend it.[94] The next day, the Wi-Fi Alliance also 'temporarily restricted' Huawei's membership.[95][72]
On 24 May 2019, Huawei told Reuters that FedEx attempted to divert two packages sent from Japan and addressed to Huawei in China to the United States, and tried to divert two more packages sent from Vietnam to Huawei offices elsewhere in Asia, all without their authorization. At first, FedEx China claimed that 'media reports are not true'. However, on May 28, they apologized, on their Chinese social media account, for the fact that 'a small number of Huawei shipments were misrouted', and claimed that 'there are no external parties that require FedEx to ship these shipments' .[96][97][98]
On 29 May 2019, it was reported that Huawei was once again listed as member of JEDEC, the SD Association, and Wi-Fi Alliance.[99] In addition, while the science organization IEEE had initially banned Huawei employees from peer-reviewing papers or handling papers as editors on May 30th 2019, citing legal concerns, that ban was also revoked on June 3rd 2019.[100]
Corporate affairs[edit]
Huawei classifies itself as a 'collective' entity and prior to 2019 did not refer to itself as a private company. Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, said that this is 'a definitional distinction that has been essential to the company's receipt of state support at crucial points in its development'.[101] McGregor argued that 'Huawei's status as a genuine collective is doubtful.'[101] Huawei's position has shifted in 2019 when, Dr. Song Liuping, Huawei's chief legal officer, commented on the US government ban, said: 'Politicians in the US are using the strength of an entire nation to come after a private company.' (emphasis added).[102]
Leadership[edit]
Ren Zhengfei is the founder and CEO of Huawei and has the power to veto any decisions made by the board of directors.[103][104] Huawei disclosed its list of board of directors for the first time in 2010.[105]Liang Hua is the current chair of the board. As of 2019, the members of the board are Liang Hua, Guo Ping, Xu Zhijun, Hu Houkun, Meng Wanzhou (CFO and deputy chairwoman, currently out on bail in Vancouver[106], after being arrested there on December 1 2018, after an extradition request of US authorities on suspicion of Iran sanctions evasion[107]), Ding Yun, Yu Chengdong, Wang Tao, Xu Wenwei, Chen Lifang, Peng Zhongyang, He Tingbo, Li Yingtao, Ren Zhengfei, Yao Fuhai, Tao Jingwen, and Yan Lida.[108] Guo Ping is the Chairman of Huawei Device, Huawei's mobile phone division.[109]
Ownership[edit]
Huawei is stated to be an employee-owned company. Ren Zhengfei retains approximately 1 percent of the shares of Huawei's holding company, Huawei Investment & Holding[110], with the remainder of the shares held by a trade union committee that is claimed to be representative of Huawei's employee shareholders.[111]This is also due to a limitation in Chinese law preventing limited liability companies from having more than 50 shareholders.[112] About half of Huawei staff participate in this scheme (foreign employees are not eligible), and hold what the company calls 'virtual restricted shares'. These shares are nontradable and are allocated to reward performance.[113] When employees leave Huawei, their shares revert to the company, which compensates them for their holding.[114] Although employee shareholders receive dividends[111], their shares do not entitle them to any direct influence in management decisions, but enables them to vote for members of the 115-person Representatives’ Commission from a preselected list of candidates.[111] The Representatives’ Commission selects Huawei Holding's Board of Directors and Board of Supervisors.[115] There is debate about whether or not the trade union committee could exert government influence on Huawei.[103]
Partners and customers[edit]
As of the beginning of 2010, approximately 80% of the world's top 50 telecoms companies had worked with Huawei.[116]
Prominent partners include:
- Bell Canada[117]
- BT[118]
- Clearwire[116]
- Motorola[119][120]
- Orange[121]
- PLDT[122]
- Vodafone[123][124]
Leica and Huawei[edit]
Since 2016, German camera company Leica has established partnership with Huawei, and Leica cameras will be co-engineered into Huawei smartphones, including the P and Mate Series. The first smartphone to be co-engineered with a Leica camera was the Huawei P9.[125]
Products and services[edit]
Huawei is organized around three core business segments:
- Telecom Carrier Networks, building telecommunications networks and services
- Enterprise Business, providing equipment, software and services to enterprise customers, e.g. Government Solutions - see Huawei 4G eLTE[126]
- Devices, manufacturing electronic communications devices[4]
Huawei announced its Enterprise business in January 2011 to provide network infrastructure, fixed and wireless communication, data center, and cloud computing solutions[buzzword] for global telecommunications customers.[127]
Telecom networks[edit]
Huawei's core network solutions[buzzword] offer mobile and fixed softswitches, plus next-generation home location register and Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystems (IMS). Huawei sells xDSL, passive optical network (PON) and next-generation PON (NG PON) on a single platform. The company also offers mobile infrastructure, broadband access and service provider routers and switches (SPRS). Huawei's software products include service delivery platforms (SDPs), BSSs, Rich Communication Suite and digital home and mobile office solutions[buzzword].[128]
Global services[edit]
Huawei Global Services provides telecommunications operators with equipment to build and operate networks as well as consulting and engineering services to improve operational efficiencies.[129] These include network integration services such as those for mobile and fixed networks; assurance services such as network safety; and learning services, such as competency consulting.[128]
Devices[edit]
Huawei's Devices division provides white-label products to content-service providers, including USB modems, wireless modems and wireless routers for mobile Wi-Fi,[130][131]embedded modules, fixed wireless terminals, wireless gateways, set-top boxes, mobile handsets and video products.[132] Huawei also produces and sells a variety of devices under its own name, such as the IDEOS smartphones, tablet PCs and Huawei Smartwatch.[133][134]
Huawei Honor 6
History of Huawei phones[edit]
In July 2003, Huawei established their handset department and by 2004, Huawei shipped their first phone, the C300. The U626 was Huawei's first 3G phone in June 2005 and in 2006, Huawei launched the first Vodafone-branded 3G handset, the V710. The U8220 was Huawei's first Android smartphone and was unveiled in MWC 2009. At CES 2012, Huawei introduced the Ascend range starting with the Ascend P1 S. At MWC 2012, Huawei launched the Ascend D1. In September 2012, Huawei launched their first 4G ready phone, the Ascend P1 LTE. At CES 2013, Huawei launched the Ascend D2 and the Ascend Mate. At MWC 2013, the Ascend P2 was launched as the world's first LTE Cat4 smartphone. In June 2013, Huawei launched the Ascend P6 and in December 2013, Huawei introduced Honor as a subsidiary independent brand in China. At CES 2014, Huawei launched the Ascend Mate2 4G in 2014 and at MWC 2014, Huawei launched the MediaPad X1 tablet and Ascend G6 4G smartphone. Other launched in 2014 included the Ascend P7 in May 2014, the Ascend Mate7, the Ascend G7 and the Ascend P7 Sapphire Edition as China's first 4G smartphone with a sapphire screen.[135]
In January 2015, Huawei discontinued the 'Ascend' brand for its flagship phones, and launched the new P series with the Huawei P8.[136][137] Huawei also partnered with Google to build the Nexus 6P in 2015.
The current models in the P and Mate lines, the P30, P30 Pro, Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro and Mate 20 X were released in 2018 and 2019.[138][139]
EMUI (Emotion User Interface)[edit]
Emotion UI (EMUI) is a ROM/OS that is developed by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and is based on Google's Android Open Source Project (AOSP). EMUI is preinstalled on most Huawei Smartphone devices and its subsidiaries the Honor series.
Competitive position[edit]
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, is the world's largest telecom equipment maker[13][140] and China's largest telephone-network equipment maker.[141] In 2014, Huawei became the world's No. 1 applicant for international patents in 2014, with 3,442 patents.[142][143]
R&D centers[edit]
It has 21 R&D institutes in countries including China, the United States,[144] Canada,[145] the United Kingdom,[146] Pakistan, Finland, France, Belgium, Germany, Colombia, Sweden, Ireland, India,[147] Russia, Israel, and Turkey.[7][8]
Huawei is considering opening a new research and development (R&D) center in Russia (2019/2020), which would be the third in the country after the Moscow and St. Petersburg R&D centers. Huawei also announced plans (November 2018) to open an R&D centre in the French city of Grenoble, which would be mainly focused on smartphone sensors and parallel computing software development. The new R&D team in Grenoble was expected to grow to 30 researchers by 2020, said the company. The company said that this new addition brought to five the number of its R&D teams in the country: two were located in Sophia Antipolis and Paris, researching image processing and design, while the other two existing teams were based at Huawei's facilities in Boulogne-Billancourt, working on algorithms and mobile and 5G standards. The technology giant also intended to open two new research centres in Zürich and Lausanne, Switzerland. Huawei at the time employed around 350 people in Switzerland.[148][149]
Controversies[edit]
Huawei has faced criticism for various aspects of its operations, with its most prominent controversies having involved U.S. allegations of its products containing backdoors for Chinese government espionage—consistent with domestic laws requiring Chinese citizens and companies to cooperate with state intelligence when warranted. Huawei executives have consistently denied these allegations, having stated that the company has never received any requests by the Chinese government to introduce backdoors in its equipment, would refuse to do so, and that Chinese law did not compel them to do so.[150][150][151][152][153]
Huawei has also been accused of various instances of intellectual property theft against parties such as Nortel,[154]Cisco Systems, and T-Mobile US (where a Huawei employee had stolen a robotic arm used to stress test smartphones).[155][156][157]
See also[edit]
- Huawei 4G eLTE in Africa Sub Sahara
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334 with 133 posters participating, including story authorUS prosecutors unsealed a pair of indictments against Huawei on Monday, escalating the Trump administration's battle with the Chinese smartphone giant. One of the indictments also names Meng Wanzhou—Huawei's chief financial officer and the daughter of the company's founder—and accuses her and the company of selling US technology to Iran in violation of US sanctions laws.
Trade War! USA v. China
View more storiesThe other indictment charges Huawei with stealing cell phone testing technology from T-Mobile. And Huawei is accused of stealing the technology in the most literal sense: according to the indictment, a Huawei employee entered a T-Mobile testing lab, put a proprietary robot arm into his laptop bag, and walked out. The heist was the final step in Huawei's increasingly aggressive efforts to learn how T-Mobile's smartphone testing system works.US prosecutors argue that the two indictments reveal a culture of deception at the Chinese smartphone giant.
'Huawei and its senior executives repeatedly refused to respect the laws of the United States and standard international business practices,' said FBI Director Christopher A. Wray. So the US government has taken the extraordinary step of filing not one but two indictments against a major Chinese company.
The great testing-robot-arm heist
To ensure the quality of smartphones it resold to customers, T-Mobile developed a robot called 'Tappy.' It had a mechanical 'finger' that could simulate hours of real-world use. The robot was designed to catch flaws in new smartphones before they were sold to customers, helping T-Mobile to raise customer satisfaction levels and reduce returns. Smartphone vendors like Huawei were given access to a lab containing robots they could use to test their own smartphones.
According to the indictment, Huawei desperately wanted a testing robot of its own—both to help it pass T-Mobile's tests and to test phones they sold to other carriers around the world. T-Mobile had granted a handful of specific Huawei USA employees access to the testing lab under strict non-disclosure agreements. In mid-2012, people from Huawei China began to pressure these employees to gather more information about how T-Mobile's phones work.
At first, these efforts were limited to asking T-Mobile employees for more information about the robot. But by January 2013, T-Mobile had grown tired of Huawei employees badgering them for details about how Tappy worked.
'We CAN'T ask TMO any questions about the robot,' one US Huawei employee wrote in an email back to headquarters. 'TMO is VERY angry about the questions that we asked. Sorry we can't delivery any more information to you.' By April, T-Mobile was threatening to ban Huawei employees from the lab if they didn't stop asking questions about the robot.
Rather than backing off, Huawei allegedly escalated its industrial-espionage efforts. Huawei allegedly flew an engineer from China to Seattle, where the testing laboratory was located, to personally inspect the T-Mobile robot. The T-Mobile-cleared employees helped the engineer sneak into T-Mobile's lab. A T-Mobile employee discovered that he was in the lab and told him to leave.
Undeterred, they returned to the lab the next day. Once again, the authorized Huawei employees allegedly used their badges to grant access to the Chinese engineer. The engineer 'took numerous unauthorized photographs of Tappy and otherwise gathered technical information about the robot.' Once again, a T-Mobile employee discovered what was going on and ordered the group to leave.
A furious T-Mobile banned most Huawei personnel from its lab, allowing a single employee to continue testing Huawei phones that were already slated for release by T-Mobile. A couple of weeks later, that employee stole the arm from one of the T-Mobile robots from the lab.
'As he was preparing to leave the laboratory,' the employee 'surreptitiously placed one of the Tappy robot arms into his laptop bag and secretly removed it from the laboratory,' the indictment charges.
Overnight, according to prosecutors, the Chinese engineer performed a detailed technical analysis of the robot arm and took a lot of photographs. 'Some of the photographs depicted the precise width of certain parts of the robot arm by showing a measuring device next to the parts,' the indictment says.
The employee returned the robot arm the next morning, saying he had taken it home by accident. T-Mobile wasn't impressed and banned all Huawei personnel from its lab.
Huawei became worried that this incident could anger T-Mobile and ruin Huawei's hopes of breaking into the lucrative US market—T-Mobile had been the first major US carrier to start selling Huawei's phones. So the indictment charges that Huawei went to great lengths to mislead T-Mobile about what happened.
Huawei allegedly had a bonus program for stolen secrets
Huawei allegedly conducted a fraudulent 'internal investigation' and then wrote a report claiming that the thefts of secrets had been carried out by 'two individuals who acted on their own' and who 'violated our company's policies and thus were both terminated for cause.' In reality, prosecutors say, many people at Huawei knew about and supported the employees' actions.
Prosecutors say that one Huawei program illustrates just how deep Huawei's culture of stealing secrets went. In July 2013, 'Huawei China launched a formal policy instituting a bonus program to reward employees who stole confidential information from competitors,' the indictment states. 'Under the policy, Huawei established a formal schedule for rewarding employees for stealing information from competitors based on the confidential value of the information obtained.' The policy 'emphasized that no employees would be punished for taking actions in accordance with the policy.'
Obviously, the existence of this program could become awkward for Huawei's US subsidiary, which was trying to convince T-Mobile that the Seattle lab incident had been an isolated one. So a Huawei USA official sent out an email to all employees acknowledging that employees may have felt they were 'being encouraged and could possibly earn a monetary award for collecting confidential information regarding our competitors.'
The email acknowledged that 'in some foreign countries and regions, such a directive and award program may be normal and within the usual course of business in that region.' However, the official wrote, 'here in the USA, we do not condone [or] engage in such activities, and such behavior is expressly prohibited by company policies.'
Federal prosecutors say that a wealth of internal emails shows that this was nonsense—that Huawei's US subsidiary actively participated in efforts to steal secrets about T-Mobile's testing robots.
Huawei’s CFO allegedly lied to US banks about Huawei’s activities in Iran
Prosecutors unsealed a second indictment alongside the one alleging theft of T-Mobile's robot trade secrets. This one accused Huawei—and specifically CFO Meng—of lying to Western financial institutions about Huawei's dealings in Iran.
US law prohibits US companies from selling technology to Iran, and it also prohibits companies in third-party countries like China from re-selling US-made technology to Iran. Companies that flout that ban risk losing access to US-made technology altogether—a punishment the Trump administration briefly imposed on another Chinese smartphone giant, ZTE, over similar issues.
US financial institutions are also not supposed to provide service to companies doing illicit business in Iran. So when Reuters reported that Huawei was selling technology to Iran via a shell company in 2012, it put Huawei's Western banking partners in an awkward position. In June 2013, Meng met with one financial executive at a bank that was doing business with Huawei.
According to prosecutors, she lied about Huawei's dealings in Iran. She claimed that Huawei was complying with US law and denied that the shell company—on whose board she sat—had been created to evade US sanctions. She visited the US in early 2014 and made similar claims, according to talking points obtained by US prosecutors. Prosecutors say that Meng's lies convinced the bank to continue doing business with Huawei.
These and related charges are apparently at the core of the US effort to extradite Meng, who was seized while she was changing planes in Vancouver. She is now under house arrest in Canada, and the Canadian government has faced pressure from China to free her. After Meng's arrest, China seized two Canadians on charges related to national security. The Chinese government claimed that these actions had nothing to do with Meng's arrest—but that's a little hard to believe.
Correction: My headline initially said Huawei was indicted for stealing a robot, rather than a robot arm.