Amid the US-China trade war, Huawei is the company that’s caught in the middle. While both the countries and trying out to work a deal, Huawei’s Chief Security Officer recently said that the United States needs to talk to Huawei for the China trade deal.
Now, Zhengfei Ren, CEO and founder of Huawei has offered an olive branch to the Trump administration to resolve the issue between Washington and Huawei. In an interview with New York Times, he said that the company is open to license its 5G technology to American companies. The proposed offer would essentially allow the U.S. to finally get in the race for 5G supremacy.
Ren said: “Huawei is open to sharing our 5G technologies and techniques with U.S. companies, so that they can build up their own 5G industry. That would create a balanced situation between China, the U.S. and Europe.”
He also added that the U.S. companies would be allowed to modify the software code used to run any of Huawei’s 5G equipment or even change it and use their own as they see fit. With such deal, the American licensees will be able to sell their 5G equipment based on Huawei’s intellectual property anywhere in the world, except in China, said Ren.
The 5G market is currently being dominated by four companies — Huawei and ZTE from China, Ericsson of Sweden, and Nokia from Finland. Currently, the use of Huawei equipment is banned from U.S. networks over concerns that it could be used by the Chinese government as a method to spy or disrupt telecom systems. At present, there’s no American 5G equipment maker.
However, the Chinese government would have to approve the deal to make this happen. It remains to be seen if the Chinese government is on-board to see the most valuable assets of its most valuable tech company land in hands of the United States.
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