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Philippines' Globe Telecom launches fixed wireless 5G network
Source: Xinhua| 2019-06-20 23:25:26|Editor: yan

MANILA, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Globe Telecom, Inc. launched on Thursday its fifth-generation (5G) services, becoming the first Philippine carrier to make the next generation connectivity standard available commercially.

The Ayala-led company is partnering with Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. for the development of its 5G network, which will be launched through a home broadband service initially.

Globe is the first in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia to launch 5G, said Ernest Cu, president and chief executive officer of Globe, during the launch.

"And the countries ahead of us are (South) Korea and Japan. Can you imagine? We're in great company, right, to be able launch this technology," Cu said.

"What it really means is for the Filipino families and I think the Philippines is freedom, freedom to be able to experience the internet much faster than what's there before without having to deploy fiber," he added.

Although the technology is new and still unproven, Cu said early indications are that "it really opens up a whole new world of possibilities."

Globe was initially planning to roll out in locations with high density of cell sites such as Metro Manila and other urban centers.

Fifth-generation or 5G is a new mobile standard that will offer much faster internet speeds and less lag. The technology is seen as the next mobile technology that will revolutionize not only the way people communicate with each other, but also how devices connect to one another to create a smart environment.

Industry giant PLDT Inc. is targeting to launch 5G services for select home broadband and corporate customers by the fourth quarter of 2019, PLDT chair and CEO Manuel Pangilinan said last week.

Pangilinan said his group will most likely launch its own 5G services for the home and enterprise within the fourth quarter, as the group guns to finish its pilot testing for 5G use cases in the coming months.

"We might start with the home and enterprise. But what we have to ask are what the relevant cities, customer premises equipment are for home and enterprise," he told reporters last week.

 

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Continue the ban plz. I shall never buy a smartphone (with Android on it)...

Likewise.

 

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Huawei smartphone gets 1st 5G license
By Zhang Jie | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2019-06-25 16:57

A screenshot of Huawei's official Weibo account on June 25, 2019. [Photo/weibo.com]

Huawei's smartphone Mate 20X has obtained the first license to allow terminal telecommunication equipment to enter the 5G network in China, the company announced Tuesday on its official Sina Weibo account.

Currently, Huawei has signed 50 commercial 5G contracts globally to ship more than 150,000 sets of 5G equipment, said Ding Yun, president of Huawei's telecom carrier business group, at a summit meeting themed "5G is ON" held in Shanghai.

 

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Huawei's in trouble!

"Huawei has so far gained 50 5G commercial contracts and shipped more than 150,000 base stations," Ding said.

http://unb.com.bd/category/Tech/huawei-5g-enabling-new-growth-ryan-ding/21084

 

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GUANGZHOU, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Huawei has received 50 contracts on 5G commercial services from 30 countries and regions, and shipped more than 150,000 5G base stations worldwide, the company announced Wednesday.

As of Saturday, Huawei has received 28 contracts from Europe, 11 from the Middle East, six from the Asia-Pacific Region, four from the Americas, and one from Africa, said Hu Houkun, deputy chairman of the company's board of directors during a press conference held Wednesday.

Hu added that the shipment of the company's 5G base stations is expected to grow to about 500,000 by the end of this year.

As to whether the supply of 5G products will be affected by external sanctions, Hu said that alternative solutions have been found for all the affected components, and the performance of the alternative solutions are the same as or even better than the original components.

At present, Huawei's 5G technology solutions are completely unaffected by the sanctions. In terms of both signed contracts or those in the future, the company can fully guarantee a stable supply to its customers, Hu said.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-06/26/c_138175892.htm

 

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Huawei’s HongMeng OS may build a large ecosystem: analysts
Source:Global Times Published: 2019/7/8 22:08:40

A view of the Huawei stand during the Innovfest Unbound tech show held in Singapore from Thursday to Friday Photo: Zhang Hongpei/GT

HongMeng, Huawei's alternative operating system (OS) for Android, may be announced at the Huawei Developers Conference in early August, according to a report on news portal yicai.com on Sunday.

The OS is likely to build a large ecosystem thanks to a series of measures by Huawei, including the self-developed app compiler, according to experts.

Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei, observed that despite the fast progress on the OS, the biggest challenge is to cultivate a robust ecosystem, and to encourage as many developers to engage in the system as possible, the report said.

However, industry analysts noted that compared with other non-Android and non-IOS systems, HongMeng has a much better chance of surviving and even winning a considerable market share.

Xiang Ligang, director-general of the Beijing-based Information Consumption Alliance told the Global Times on Monday that the key is Huawei's independently developed ARK compiler, which allows app developers to convert their apps to be compatible with the HongMeng system.

"The main reason that most small OS on the mobile end failed, including Windows and Symbian, is that developers don't have enough incentives to develop multiple sets of apps for different OS," Xiang said. "The compiler means the apps can be ready for HongMeng without having to be developed from scratch. And as more apps operate in the system, more developers will have the incentive to engage with it."

HongMeng also has a broader application range than most OS. According to the report, the HongMeng OS will be installed not only in smartphones but also in applications for the Internet of Things (IoT), and industrial automation, with less than five milliseconds of processing delay, Ren was quoted as saying.

"Given its focus on processing delay, the HongMeng OS is still largely a system for industrial automation rather than smartphones," said Fu Liang, a Beijing-based independent industry analyst.

It is still an emergency backup plan prepared for the worst case scenario. To take over the current dominant OS would be costly and require a new set of negotiations and verification with network providers, Fu said.

Currently, the HongMeng OS is being tested at a relatively small scale, but around 1 million devices equipped with HongMeng OS will be shipped before the end of the year, the report said.

"A very likely strategy for Huawei is to select a specific type of phone to have the OS installed to test the waters," Xiang said. "And by trial and error and collating the market response, Huawei will have a better idea how to update the system."

 

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Good job Huawei!

Rest in piss murica.

 

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Huawei applies for license to make high-precision digital maps, heralds a move further into self-driving sector
By Shen Weiduo Source:Global Times Published: 2019/7/9 17:17:06

Huawei, the Chinese technology giant caught amid the ongoing China-US trade war, has applied for a license to make high-precision digital maps, a move that an industry analyst said could drive up the company's efforts to develop and launch autonomous driving solutions and expand its business sphere.

According to a statement on the official website of China's Ministry of Natural Resources, the application from Beijing Huawei Digital Technologies Co, a subsidiary of Huawei, together with six other companies, was approved and is in its publication period from July 5 to Thursday.

Huawei will officially be allowed to enter the high-precision digital mapping industry from that point.

Huawei said it "had not heard about the matter" when contacted by the Global Times on Tuesday.

Analysts said that high-precision digital maps are a significant and necessary step for self-driving technology, but they may stay in the research and development period for years before the technology can finally be commercialized.

"The application is obviously a major step for Huawei's ambition to explore the autonomous driving sector. In other words, Huawei wants to make itself an integrator that could make both hardware and software in the industry," Feng Shiming, a car analyst at Shanghai-based Menutor Consulting, told the Global Times on Tuesday.

Huawei has repeatedly stated that it would not make cars. While focusing on information and communications technology, Huawei aims to enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of cars to build smarter vehicles to facilitate evolutionary changes in the auto industry, Huawei Rotating Chairman Eric Xu said in April.

Xu said that the products Huawei will offer to automotive OEMs include mobile data centers, cloud services for autonomous driving, 4G/5G in-vehicle communication modules, and Huawei HiCar people-car-home connectivity solutions for all scenarios.

"Without making cars, if the company could successfully acquire the core technologies of all the software and hardware needed by self-driving, it would have more of a say in the smart car industry chain, even more so than those firms who made the cars themselves," Feng said. "By then, Huawei's technology prowess in the sector would be like the combination of Intel and Microsoft's influence on the global computer industry chain."

With its self-developed HongMeng operating system and its peculiar strength in 5G, together with China's large and mature market, Huawei has both the strength and advantage to achieve that goal, Feng noted.

"Huawei's artificial intelligence chip Balong 5000 is also capable of supporting the company to realize its ambitions in the auto industry," an industry insider told the Global Times previously.

Huawei has been actively laying out its car businesses over the past year. It said that it may launch self-driving vehicles as early as 2021, according to a report from the Financial Times, citing a Huawei representative.

The telecommunications giant has partnered with car manufacturers including the German carmaker Audi, GAC Toyota, Beijing New Energy Automobile and Changan Automobile to supply them with artificial intelligence technology, according to the report.

 

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Industry insiders close to #Huawei told the Global Times on Wed it is highly likely the tech giant will release #HongMengOS on August 9 during the developer conference. The self-developed OS mainly used in #IoT will reshape the OS market, challenging Google’s #Android.

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Huawei's HongMeng OS set for release in August: insiders
By Yang Kunyi Source:Global Times Published: 2019/7/10 22:18:40

Alternative to Android, iOS may reshape industry

Photo: IC

The HongMeng operating system (OS), developed by Huawei as a potential alternative to Google's Android OS, might be released at Huawei's Developer Conference on August 9, industry insiders close to the matter told the Global Times Wednesday.

According to media reports, the user experience (UX) design features a brand new ringtone and notification panel, a cleaner interface for the camera, more animation and faster speed. Users can also add widgets and personalize the locked screen.

Experts said that it is possible for Huawei to build a sustainable smartphone ecosystem on the HongMeng OS and reshape the current market dominated by Android and Apple's iOS, although the new system is primarily designed for industrial automation and applications in the Internet of Things (IoT).

"Given the design features of the HongMeng OS, it can be a game changer in IoT-related areas, such as driverless cars and smart homes," Fu Liang, a Beijing-based independent industry analyst, told the Global Times.

According to Huawei's website, the HongMeng OS is built with a processing latency of less than 5 milliseconds, which is especially required in circumstances involving IoT applications that often need to transfer large amount of data simultaneously.

"It's not designed for phones as everyone thinks," Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei, said in a recent interview with the French magazine Le Point.

However, the company could still resort to the HongMeng OS as it may be wary of the threats coming from the US, and it still can be very competitive, according to experts.

"One key advantage of the HongMeng OS is that the Android apps don't need to be recoded to run in the system," Fu said. "As it is reportedly 60 percent faster than Android and iOS, more smartphone makers such as Xiaomi and Oppo will be likely to install the OS in their phones."

As a new OS that's almost 10 years younger than Android, HongMeng is currently lacking a robust ecosystem that Huawei will need to cultivate and sustain, Fu noted.

According to statistics by statcounters.com, as of June 2019, Android had more than 76 percent of the mobile OS market and iOS had more than 22 percent, leaving less than 2 percent to other systems.

But Huawei is encouraging app developers to join its app store, called AppGallery, to build its ecosystem.

According to a report by technology news website landiannews.com, Huawei has sent an email to app developers inviting them to publish their apps on AppGallery.

"All Huawei smartphones are installed with our official app store AppGallery with more than 270 million monthly active users… To guarantee full support for your app, it is an invitation for you to join our developers' community and portal," said the email.

"It is hard to estimate if the new OS is put into use, exactly how many customers will switch to HongMeng in the short term," said Xiang Ligang, director-general of the Beijing-based Information Consumption Alliance.

"But given time, I see no reason Huawei cannot take up a significant share of the market if it decides to. The millions of users of Huawei are too big to miss out for developers. As more apps operate in the system, more developers will join to build a robust ecosystem."

 

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22:57, 18-Jul-2019
Huawei kicks its top phone assembler out of the supply chain
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Employees assemble Motorola Solutions Inc. Moto X smartphones at the Flextronics International Ltd. factory in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S., September 10, 2013. /VCG Photo

After suspending part of the production in May due to the U.S. “Entity List” restriction, Flex Ltd, Huawei’s largest smartphone assembler, has halted all production lines in its Changsha factory based in central China’s Hunan Province, according to Caixin’s report last Friday.

An exclusive report from iFeng tech revealed that Huawei ruled Flex out of their supply chain after the company realized production requirements cannot be met.

The Singapore-based electronic manufacturing service giant confirmed in May that they were asked to suspend all global cooperation with Huawei, including productions in Chinese factories and product deliveries, in order to comply with the Washington rules.

They resumed shipments for the majority of products in the later months, but their partnership failed to continue after the company repeatedly asked Huawei to make a promise on some of its conditions, the iFeng report said on Wednesday.

Flex’s business in the Changsha factory has been partly taken over by BYD electronics, the report mentions. Best known for the electronic vehicles business, BYD is also a major supplier of Huawei's Mate20 RS camera assembly services and plastic parts for Mate20 and Mate20 Pro metal frames.

Founded in 1969, Flex is the world's second largest contract manufacturer after Foxconn by revenue, and Huawei’s largest phone assembler. It employs nearly 200,000 people in more than 30 countries and has over 30 factories in China.

Huawei's American suppliers. /Screenshot from Reuters

According to Reuters' report, Huawei contributes nearly 2.5 billion yuan to Flex’s revenue so losing the contract with the telecom giant will be a heavy blow for the American company.

 

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JULY 23, 2019 / 1:37 AM / UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO
Huawei's U.S. research arm slashes jobs as trade ban bites
Jane Lanhee Lee, Sijia Jiang

SANTA CLARA, Calif./HONG KONG (Reuters) - China’s Huawei Technologies laid off more than two-thirds of the 850-strong workforce at its Futurewei Technologies research arm in the United States, after being blacklisted by the government.

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Huawei unveils major Italy investment
By Ma Si | China Daily | Updated: 2019-07-23 07:37

Huawei products are displayed during the opening of the company's new offices in Milan, northern Italy, earlier this year.[Provided to China Daily]

Chinese telecom major Huawei Technologies Co plans to invest $3.1 billion in Italy over the next three years, making its latest move to leverage European technologies for future growth amid challenges from the US government, analysts said on Monday.

Thomas Miao, Huawei's Italian unit chief executive, said the investment plan would create 1,000 new direct jobs from 2019 to 2021, Italian news agency Ansa reported.

Specifically, the plan would consist of $1.2 billion invested in operations and marketing, and $1.9 billion in direct supplies of Huawei's products, while $52 million would be added for research and development activities, Ansa added.

As part of the overall investment plan, Huawei would spend around 2 million euros ($2.24 million) to build a laboratory with the University of Pavia in Italy. The laboratory is designed to develop chips, especially those at early stages, Russia's Sputnik news agency reported.

Starting operations in Italy since 2004, Huawei now employs about 850 people in the nation.

The new move came after Huawei said in May it plans to build and operate an optical device research and development base in Cambridge, the United Kingdom, within the next five years.

The expansion is part of a five-year 3-billion-pound ($3.75 billion) investment plan for the UK that the Shenzhen-based company announced last February.

Huawei is facing restrictions from the US government which added it to an Entity List in May, banning the world's largest telecom equipment maker from purchasing any US technologies without special government approval.

Although the US Department of Commerce said earlier this month that it would issue licenses to US companies seeking to sell products to Huawei when "there is no threat to national security", analysts said Huawei is already determined to shift more of its suppliers and research and development centers to Europe.

Wang Yanhui, secretary-general of the Mobile China Alliance, said amid the ban from Washington, Huawei is working hard to find European and Chinese alternatives to its US suppliers.

"Though the restrictions are relaxed to some extent, it was already very clear that the US market is not a level-playing field for Huawei. It must make strategic adjustments of its R&D layout," said Fu Liang, an independent analyst who has been following the telecom industry for more than a decade.

Huawei confirmed media reports that the company is shrinking its business in the US, with plans to lay off employees at its US-based research and development subsidiary Futurewei Technologies.

 

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Huawei reports 30% revenue growth despite best efforts by US to derail Chinese tech juggernaut

Chinese telecom giant Huawei recorded better than expected revenue growth in the first half of 2019, up 30 percent year-on-year. The strong results come despite the Chinese firm being put on Washington’s trade blacklist.
The company’s revenue jumped almost 40 percent in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period of 2018 – to 180 billion Chinese yuan ($26 billion).

Huawei announced last week that it signed 50 5G commercial contracts, with 28 coming from mobile operators in Europe. The company’s rotating chairman Ken Hu said in April he anticipated that the faster-than-expected rollout of 5G networks would fuel double-digit growth for its carrier division in 2019.

Huawei’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei warned in June that various US restrictions would take $30 billion off its top-line over the next two years. He said that revenue was expected to decline to about $100 billion this year.
Since 2018, the Shenzhen-based firm has faced pressure from the United States while being accused by Washington of spying for the Chinese government. Both Beijing and Huawei deny the charge. Huawei was barred from doing business with American companies that supply it with necessary parts and technology.

The Trump administration has also been pressing allies to ban Huawei from 5G rollouts. The pressure has eased recently, with Washington having relaxed sanctions on the company.

Some countries like Australia and Japan have barred Huawei, while others, including India, are yet to decide whether to permit its 5G rollouts. The UK and Spain have already launched 5G commercial networks powered by Huawei base stations. This month, Brazil said it will not stop the Chinese technology company from operating within its borders.

In June, Huawei helped to launch the 5G commercial network in Saudi Arabia. It has also stepped into the Russian market, announcing an agreement with one of Russia’s leading internet and mobile providers, MTS, to develop 5G networks. The Chinese giant has also approached several Russian tech firms to create joint ventures and use their technology.

 

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IMO I think Ren & many of us Huawei supporters were too pesimistic, Huawei is clearly doing extremely well, its just like what they say "what doesnt kill you will make you stronger", the US gave free advertisment to Huawei, nowadays thanks to Trump every body knows Huawei and advertisment is every thing because no matter how good your products are.. if you dont advertise them customers won't even know that you exist.