Beijing Morning News on March 22, as the world's third-largest smart phone maker, Huawei has not been able to knock the door of the US market. Recently, a person familiar with the matter said that Huawei was the largest electronics retailer in the United States Best Buy (Best Buy ) Rejected, its smart phone sales will become more difficult.
According to a person familiar with the matter, Best Buy has stopped purchasing new smart phones from Huawei and will stop selling its products in the coming weeks. The person familiar with the matter said that Best Buy decided to end the partnership.
Best Buy does not provide any additional details.
A Best Buy spokesman said: 'We will not comment on specific contracts with suppliers. We will make decisions based on various reasons to change the products we sell.'
A Huawei spokeswoman said Best Buy is a valuable partner. However, according to company policy, we will not discuss the details of the partnership publicly,' she said.
This move is a heavy blow to Huawei. As the third-largest smartphone supplier in the world after Apple and Samsung, Huawei has always strived to establish presence in the United States. Best Buy is one of Huawei's largest retail partners. It is also one of the very few places in the United States that can see Huawei mobile phones. Huawei phones are not sold by U.S. carriers. Most Americans usually buy mobile phones through operators.
Huawei originally hoped to announce partnership with AT&T on the sales of Mate10 Pro smart phones at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January this year. This has high hopes for them, but it is said that due to political pressure, US operators have become paralyzed. Reported, Verizon overthrew plans for Huawei’s sales of mobile phones a few days later.
Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's consumer business, acknowledged that despite the lack of carrier partners to hurt Huawei, he said 'the consumers will suffer even more' because they have lost a great opportunity to switch to Android phones with the powerful Mate10 Pro. CNET Editor Andrew Hoyle used to call it 'beautiful big screen giant' and had a place in high-end smartphones.
AT&T declined to comment on the reports, but pointed out that it has never publicly promised to sell Huawei mobile phones. The reporter failed to contact Verizon, but the latter had previously declined to disclose the matter.
In the United States, security issues have been plaguing Huawei. In 2012, the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee issued a report accusing Huawei and ZTE of creating telecommunications equipment that poses a national security threat to the United States and prohibits US companies from purchasing equipment from two companies. At that time, the committee stressed that the report did not mention its smartphone.
In the past few years, Huawei slowly established a fan base through retailers Best Buy, Amazon, Newegg.
However, in the past few months, the situation has changed. The FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Bureau executives all expressed concerns about the risks brought by Huawei and ZTE.
For its part, Huawei products (including telecommunications equipment and telephones) are being sold to different parts of the world through different companies.
'Our products and solutions have been used by major operators, Fortune 500 companies and hundreds of millions of consumers in more than 170 countries around the world,' said a spokesperson for Huawei. 'We have won the trust of our partners in global value chains.' '
Although ZTE was involved in this turmoil, the company is selling smartphones through U.S. operators.
Amazon declined to comment on the US government’s actions, but it is still selling Huawei’s products, including mobile phones and smart watches. Consumers can only purchase on Huawei’s specific pages. New Egg did not respond to press requests, but Huawei’s mobile phones also Appear on the website page.