Huawei has received temporary relief from the US ban for 90 days which is set to expire in August. In case the ban on the company isn’t lifted by then, Huawei is getting prepared with its backup plan.
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has applied for the trademark of its “Hongmeng” mobile operating system with the Peruvian authorities. As we recently reported, the company is expected to launch the Hongmeng OS in October this year.
Peru’s anti-trust agency Indecopi has said that Huawei filed the trademark request on May 27, days after the United States put Huawei on a blacklist that barred it from business with global tech companies, including Google. This also bars Huawei from using the Android operating system on its devices.
As per local newspaper Diario Correo, there are some 5.5 million users of Huawei cellphones in Peru, a country of 32 million people. Earlier, the company had confirmed that it was working on a back-up operating system in case Huawei was cut off from U.S.-made technology and software.
Indecopi has said that it needs additional information from Huawei before it could register a trademark for Hongmeng. However, it has refrained from providing any more details on the documents it said it had requested from Huawei. But it informed that the company has been given up to nine months to respond.
According to the reports, when the Hongmeng OS gets released, it won’t be having an application ecosystem to fulfill the needs of a high-end user and thus, Huawei is expected to focus on the budget smartphone segment with its own OS in the initial stages.
Outside China, Huawei is expected to ship its Hongmeng mobile operating system to Central and Eastern Europe as well as emerging countries. Europe is one of the major markets for the company and it has been putting efforts to develop an app ecosystem of its own for the European market.
