85 Facts About Huawei

Huawei has deployed its products and services in more than 170 countries and areas.

In July 2020, Huawei surpassed Samsung and Apple in the number of phones shipped worldwide for the first time.

Huawei has argued that its products posed "no greater cybersecurity risk" than those of any other vendor and claims that there is no evidence of the U S espionage.

Huawei is considered a national champion in China's "techno-nationalist development strategies", and has received extensive support including financing from state-owned banks, plus China has engaged in diplomatic lobbying and threatened trade reprisals against countries who considered blocking Huawei's participation from 5G.

Huawei has assisted in the surveillance and mass detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang internment camps, resulting in sanctions by the United States Department of State.

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Huawei tested a facial recognition AI that recognizes ethnicity-specific features to alert government authorities of members of an ethnic group.

Huawei cut 600 jobs at its Santa Clara research center in June, and in December 2019 founder Ren Zhengfei said it was moving the center to Canada because the restrictions would block them from interacting with US employees.

In 2020, Huawei agreed to sell the Honor brand to a state-owned enterprise of the Shenzhen municipal government to "ensure its survival", after the U S sanctions against them.

Huawei has been translated as "splendid achievement" or "China is able", which are possible readings of the name.

In Chinese pinyin, the name is Huawei, and pronounced in Mandarin Chinese; in Cantonese, the name is transliterated with Jyutping as Waa-wai and pronounced.

The Wall Street Journal has suggested, however, that Huawei received approximately "$46 billion in loans and other support, coupled with $25 billion in tax cuts" since the Chinese government had a vested interest in fostering a company to compete against Apple and Samsung.

Huawei won 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".

Huawei was promoted by both the government and the military as a national champion, and established new research and development offices.

In 1997, Huawei won a contract to provide fixed-line network products to Hong Kong company Hutchison Whampoa.

Later that year, Huawei launched wireless GSM-based products and eventually expanded to offer CDMA and UMTS.

In May 2003, Huawei partnered with 3Com on a joint venture known as H3C, which was focused on enterprise networking equipment.

In 2004, Huawei signed a $10 billion credit line with China Development Bank to provide low-cost financing to customers buying its telecommunications equipment to support its sales outside of China.

Huawei signed a contract with British Telecom to deploy its multi-service access network and the transmission equipment for its 21st Century Network (21CN).

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 cyber threats".

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.

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.

In October 2012, it was announced that Huawei would move its UK headquarters to Green Park, Reading, Berkshire.

In September 2017, Huawei created a Narrowband IoT city-aware network using a "one network, one platform, N applications" construction model utilizing 'Internet of things', cloud computing, big data, and other next-generation information and communications technology, it aims to be one of the world's five largest cloud players in the near future.

Huawei classifies itself as a "collective" entity and prior to 2019 did not refer to itself as a private company.

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Ren Zhengfei is the founder and CEO of Huawei and has the power to veto any decisions made by the board of directors.

Huawei disclosed its list of board of directors for the first time in 2010.

Huawei claims it is an employee-owned company, but it remains a point of dispute.

About half of Huawei staff participate in this scheme, and hold what the company calls "virtual restricted shares".

In 2021, it was reported that Huawei did not report its ultimate beneficial ownership in Europe as required by European anti-money laundering laws.

In July 2021, Huawei reportedly hired Tony Podesta as a consultant and lobbyist, with a goal of nurturing the company's relationship with the Biden administration.

Huawei announced its Enterprise business in January 2011 to provide network infrastructure, fixed and wireless communication, data center, and cloud computing for global telecommunications customers.

Huawei offers mobile and fixed softswitches, plus next-generation home location register and Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystems.

Huawei sells xDSL, passive optical network and next-generation PON (NG PON) on a single platform.

Huawei offers mobile infrastructure, broadband access and service provider routers and switches.

Huawei is the second-biggest smartphone maker in the world, after Samsung, as of the first quarter of 2019.

In 2020, Huawei agreed to sell the Honor brand to a state-owned enterprise of the Shenzhen municipal government.

In July 2003, Huawei established their handset department and by 2004, Huawei shipped their first phone, the C300.

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.

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.

In January 2015, Huawei discontinued the "Ascend" brand for its flagship phones, and launched the new P series with the Huawei P8.

Huawei partnered with Google to build the Nexus 6P in 2010.

In May 2018, Huawei stated that they will no longer allow unlocking the bootloader of their phones to allow installing third party system software or security updates after Huawei stops them.

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Huawei is currently the most well-known international corporation in China and a pioneer of the 5G mobile phone standard, which will be used globally in the next years.

In 2016, Huawei entered the laptop markets with the release of its Huawei MateBook series of laptops.

Huawei is number one in the Chinese tablet market and number two globally as of 4Q 2019.

Huawei has secured collaboration with other automakers including BAIC Motor, Changan Automobile and GAC Group.

On 9 August 2019, Huawei officially unveiled Harmony OS at its inaugural developers' conference HDC in Dongguan.

Huawei described Harmony as a free, microkernel-based distributed operating system for various types of hardware, with faster inter-process communication than QNX or Google's "Fuchsia" microkernel, and real-time resource allocation.

Huawei stated that developers would be able to "flexibly" deploy Harmony OS software across various device categories; the company focused primarily on IoT devices, including "smart displays", wearable devices, and in-car entertainment systems, and did not explicitly position Harmony OS as a mobile OS.

In 2019, Huawei had the second most patents granted by the European Patent Office.

Huawei has faced criticism for various aspects of its operations, largely involving 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.

Huawei employed a complex system of agreements with local state-owned telephone companies that seemed to include illicit payments to the local telecommunications bureau employees.

Huawei has claimed that it has no special relationship with the Chinese Communist government, like other domestic private companies.

Huawei responded by saying "this report lacks credibility as it is built on opinion rather than fact".

Wall Street Journal has suggested that Huawei received approximately "$46 billion in loans and other support, coupled with $25 billion in tax cuts" since the Chinese government had a vested interest in fostering a company to compete against Apple and Samsung.

In 2010, the European Commission launched an investigation into China's subsidies that distorted global markets and harmed European vendors, and Huawei offered the initial complainant US$56 million to withdraw the complaint in an attempt to shut down the investigation.

One former Huawei employee said “The state wants to use Huawei, and it can use it if it wants.

University of Nottingham's Martin Thorley has suggested that Huawei would have no recourse to oppose the Communist Party's request in court, since the Party controls the police, the media, the judiciary and the government.

Investigators nonetheless managed to reconstruct the hack, and upon tracing it to Huawei technicians have determined that this attack was perpetrated by China's spy agency, then sharing the findings with the United States who confirmed similar hacks.

Inside the African Union headquarters, whose computer systems were supplied by Huawei and paid for by the Chinese government, IT staff discovered that data transfers on its servers peaked after hours from January 2012 to January 2017, with the African Union's internal data sent to unknown servers hosted in Shanghai.

Huawei has been at the center of espionage allegations over Chinese 5G network equipment.

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Similarly in November 2018, New Zealand blocked Huawei from supplying mobile equipment to national telecommunications company Spark New Zealand's 5G network, citing a "significant network security risk" and concerns about China's National Intelligence Law.

On 1 October 2020, an official report released by National Cyber Security Centre noted that "Huawei has failed to adequately tackle security flaws in equipment used in the UK's telecoms networks despite previous complaints", and flagged one vulnerability of "national significance" related to broadband in 2019.

The report concluded that Huawei was not confident of implementing the five-year plan of improving its software engineering processes, so there was "limited assurance that all risks to UK national security" could be mitigated in the long-term.

In November 2020, Huawei challenged the UK government's decision, citing an Oxford Economics report that it had contributed £3.

Huawei responded that the project "complies with appropriate industry standards and the requirements of the customer.

In February 2020, US government officials claimed that Huawei has had the ability to covertly exploit backdoors intended for law enforcement officials in carrier equipment like antennas and routers since 2009.

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.

Huawei has been accused of various instances of intellectual property theft against parties such as Nortel, Cisco Systems, and T-Mobile US.

Documents leaked in 2019 revealed that Huawei "secretly helped the North Korean government build and maintain the country's commercial wireless network, " possibly in violation of international sanctions.

Huawei has assisted in the surveillance and mass detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang internment camps, resulting in sanctions by the United States Department of State.

Huawei tested a facial recognition AI that recognizes ethnicity-specific features to alert government authorities of members of an ethnic group.

In January 2021, it was reported that Huawei previously filed a patent with the China National Intellectual Property Administration for a technology to identify Uyghur pedestrians.

In 2019, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a think tank often described as hawkish in Australian media, accused Huawei of assisting in the mass detention of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang internment camps.

Huawei technology used by the Xinjiang internal security forces for data analysis, and companies supplying Huawei operating in the Xinjiang region are accused of using forced labour.

Huawei filed a lawsuit over the act in March 2019, alleging it to be unconstitutional because it specifically targeted Huawei without granting it a chance to provide a rebuttal or due process.

May 2019 ban on Huawei was partial: it did not affect most non-American produced chips, and the Trump administration granted a series of extensions on the ban in any case, with another 90-day reprieve issued in May 2020.

Key Huawei suppliers included Xilinx, Intel, AMD, Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron and Kioxia.

Huawei filed trademarks for the names "Ark", "Ark OS", and "Harmony" in Europe, which were speculated to be connected to this OS.

On 9 August 2019, Huawei officially unveiled Harmony OS at its inaugural HDC developers' conference in Dongguan with the ARK compiler which can be used to port Android APK packages to the OS.

In September 2019, Huawei began offering the Linux distribution Deepin as a pre-loaded operating system on selected Matebook models in China.

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