It seems like a black humor, Huawei up and down through the operator channels to mobile phone products into the United States market was the last moment before the hammer was halted.
A mail sent by 18 lawmakers to Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), became the last straw that came to the rescue of the camels, who wrote in an e-mail that for safety concerns FCC Investigate Huawei's cooperation with U.S. carriers.
In the words of these legislators, Huawei seems to have become a barbarian who has infiltrated the telecommunications industry in the United States. It not only peeps on the daily behavior of U.S. companies, but also treats the intellectual property they have always cherished. Therefore, in their eyes, Huawei can not be trusted at all and may threaten U.S. national security. '
Due to this pressure, AT & T had to terminate the cooperation with Huawei, the early efforts eventually turned into a basket.
This is not the first time Huawei has suffered a setback in the U.S. market.
Overseas markets have become an important part of Huawei's business, but the United States has always been the company can not step in. Previously, Huawei has repeatedly tried to enter the US market, but the results are not satisfactory.
As early as 2010, Huawei had tried to acquire the Motorola wireless network business. As a result, they repeatedly lobbied the U.S. government for permission from each other. However, the U.S. government finally rejected the deal on the pretext of 'national security.'
In 2011, Huawei and server technology company 3Leaf Systems reached an agreement to acquire the other for $ 2 million, but the deal was also intercepted by CFIUS in the name of 'technical output' and ended up as a miscarriage.
In 2012, Huawei was one more along with ZTE and was presented by the U.S. Congress with a survey that showed that both companies were 'a threat to the national security of the United States and could not prove it innocent,' and suggested that both the United States and the two Business draw lines. '
As a result of a series of annoyances, in 2013, when President Barack Obama signed a law requiring the U.S. government departments not to buy information technology systems, especially IT equipment from China, it basically blocked Huawei's sales network to the United States Equipment may be.
This is a barrier, Huawei later chose to open the door to the US market through end products and corporate business, among them, the smart phone is an important force for Huawei to enter the US market.
In order to really bring mobile phone products into the U.S. market, it is one of the most important ways to cooperate with operators, and Huawei has almost completed the necessary whole process. Only the review of lawmakers cut off Huawei and Huawei at the last moment The connection between operators.
At least, many Huawei employees were still looking forward to formally reaching a cooperation with AT & T and knocking on the door to the U.S. market before January 8, US time. In their circle of friends, Huawei's large-scale local advertisements are everywhere. For this big action, they even invited in recent years, the 'Wonder Woman' Gaelic Gado to platform for the product.
They may not have expected that the night before the official launch, Huawei will encounter the biggest setback in its long-term impact on the U.S. market.
However, on this road, Huawei is not alone.
Commercial battles between China and the United States have long been running, and in addition to Huawei, ZTE, another telecom giant in the country, has been bucking the U.S. market.
After ZTE U.S. companies were accused of selling prohibited products to U.S. sanctions, Iran said ZTE admitted to export U.S. products to Iran, obstructing the judiciary and making major misrepresentations without the permission of the U.S. government.
As a result, ZTE announced in March 2017 that it has reached a settlement on the U.S. government's export control investigation case, but the cost of the settlement is heavy - ZTE together paid a total fine of 8.22 billion yuan to the U.S. government, Created the highest fine record for the U.S. export control case ever.
This side of the box, from overseas companies have also suffered a blow in the Chinese market .2013 years ago, the country started the process of IOE to get rid of IBM, Oracle, EMC rely on the three IT giants, to put it bluntly is to use domestic companies Service to replace them.
Although there are reasons for the rapid development of cloud technology, the influence of the Snow Gate incident triggered by Snowden should not be underestimated. The incident fermentation gave a reason for defending information security in the relevant domestic departments and accelerated the process of de-IOEization. Domestic enterprises have been able to get out of control of the three international information giants of the IOE.
Under all kinds of undercurrents, there are not many companies in which to do so, and in more cases, they can only say to the outside that they should try their best to meet the challenges of the market.
Just like this one, after the bad news has settled, Huawei's chief executive Yu Chengdong, the consumer business chief, can only say at an established press conference: "After all these efforts, Huawei is closer to the U.S. consumers than ever. We firmly believe that as long as the products are competitive and can really bring value to consumers, they will eventually choose Huawei. "
In the tone, confidence still exists, but in a rapidly changing business society, after this setback, the initiative is not completely in the hands of Huawei, which has become another victim of the big game.