Telefonica Germany says it plans to use Huawei equipment in its 5G network, enlisting the Chinese company even as a debate rages over whether its products pose a security risk.

Chinese tech giant Huawei plans to equip more of its products with its Harmony operating system (OS) next year, and will promote them at home and abroad, a Huawei spokesman said on Monday.

Huawei is facing a growing backlash on social media in China after new details came to light in the case of a former employee who was arrested and jailed for 251 days following an unproven accusation of blackmail from the company.

The U.S. government may expand its power to stop more foreign shipments of products with U.S. technology to China's Huawei, amid frustration the company's blacklisting has failed to cut off supplies to the world's largest telecoms equipment maker, two sources said.

Chinese telecom giant has reduced reliance on U.S. suppliers, report finds

The Chinese company is readying itself for a court battle, according to the Wall Street Journal.

French President Emmanuel Macron, asked about possible security risks posed by China's Huawei, said on Thursday that he would never look to stigmatize any particular telecoms operator or any particular country.

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi posted its slowest-ever quarterly revenue growth as the country's smartphone market grapples with a protracted lull in sales and larger rival Huawei increases its share of the market.

The Department of Commerce has proposed requiring case-by-case approvals of all purchases of telecommunications equipment in a move likely to hit major Chinese suppliers like Huawei.

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EU countries on Friday endorsed a tough line for selecting 5G suppliers, including vetting the domestic legal framework to which they are subjected, potentially dealing a blow to telecoms equipment market leader Huawei Technologies.

A bipartisan group of 15 U.S. senators urged the Commerce Department to suspend issuing licenses to U.S. firms that conduct business with China's Huawei Technologies Co, saying it could threaten U.S. security.

Huawei suppliers in the United States are about to find out whether they can restart sales to the beleaguered Chinese company.

Huawei's new Mate 30 flagship is also finally headed to Europe next month - though the availability there comes with a couple of major asterisks.

The head of Nokia's software business Bhaskar Gorti defended the Finnish mobile network maker on Wednesday against market fears that it is lagging behind its peers Ericsson and Huawei in 5G development.

It's the third such extension granted by the Commerce Department, but Huawei downplays its importance.

The Trump administration on Monday issued a new 90-day extension allowing U.S. companies to continue doing business with China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd as U.S. regulators continue crafting rules on telecommunications firms that pose national security risks.

Samsung's plan to outsource a fifth of its smartphone production to China next year may help it compete with low-cost rivals such as Huawei and Xiaomi but it's a strategy fraught with risks, people with familiar with the move said.

Huawei's foldable smartphone, the Mate X, has, briefly, gone on sale in China.

Huawei's R&D teams will likely see the extra cash, a report says.

Ren Zhengfei is shedding that anonymity as China's first global tech brand mobilizes to fight back against U.S. sanctions and warnings Huawei Technologies is a security risk.

Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei will maintain robust business growth in the absence of U.S. supply and does not rely on any U.S. technology and components for 5G, board director William Xu said on Monday.

In a keynote address at the Web Summit tech conference Monday, Huawei Rotating Chairman Guo Ping encouraged developers to partner with Huawei to build apps and software using 5G.

Never one to shy away from a gunfight, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been nibbling around the edges of Washington's battle with Chinese tech giant Huawei for months.

There have already been 260 requests for special licenses.

European fans of Huawei smartphones will soon be able to purchase the Mate 30 Pro and the regular Mate 30, though, assuming they're ready to ditch Google's version of Android in favor of Huawei's alternative.

China's Huawei Technologies expects around 480 million households worldwide will have access to fifth-generation (5G) broadband service by 2025, the chief executive of its Brazilian telecoms operations said on Tuesday.

The agency is also looking to require rural carriers to replace their Huawei and ZTE gear, and for ways to fund that effort.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is preparing to grant China's Huawei access to the UK's future 5G telecoms network, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday.

The Chinese company is releasing a limited edition Mate 30 Pro 5G to celebrate.

Namely, that any viable replacement the company could use in place of the Android mobile OS won't be ready for a while - perhaps years.

A top executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei said Friday that the company is prepared to be "open and transparent" as it looks to persuade the U.S. government that it can be trusted and that national security concerns about its technology are unfounded.

Blacklisted Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei is in early-stage talks with some U.S. telecoms companies about licensing its 5G network technology to them, a Huawei executive told Reuters on Friday.

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed four pieces of legislation taking a hard line on China, three related to pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and one commending Canada in its dispute over the extradition of a Chinese telecom executive.

China's Huawei Technologies is ready to enter into a "no backdoor" agreement with India to allay security concerns, the telecom group's local head said on Monday, as the giant South Asian country prepares to launch next generation 5G networks.

Germany has finalised rules for the build-out of 5G mobile networks that, in a snub to the United States, will not exclude China's Huawei Technologies.

UAE telecoms company du saw no evidence of security concerns about Huawei's 5G technology, the company's chief technological officer Saleem Albalooshi told Reuters on Sunday.

The founder and chairman of one of India's biggest telecom companies voiced his support for Huawei on Thursday, saying it should be allowed to help build the country's 5G networks.

Any errors in the arrest of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou in Canada last December were technical in nature and do not meet the requirements to suspend her extradition proceedings to the United States, government lawyers said in court on Wednesday.

A workaround for the Trump ban has seemingly been eliminated.