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Best Buy will cut ties with Huawei and stop selling Huawei products over the next few weeks. Huawei's smartphones, such as its new flagship Mate 10 Pro, are sold in the U.S. by retailers, but no U.S. wireless service provider will sell them. Now the largest electronics retailer in the U.S. is calling it quits:
The move, after similar actions from U.S. carriers including AT&T Inc, comes as U.S. scrutiny of Chinese tech firms grows amid simmering tensions over U.S.-China trade and concerns of security.
[...] Earlier this year, AT&T was forced to scrap a plan to offer Huawei handsets after some members of Congress lobbied against the idea with federal regulators, sources told Reuters. Verizon Communications Inc also ended its plans to sell Huawei phones last year, according to media reports.
Last month two Republican Senators introduced legislation that would block the U.S. government from buying or leasing telecommunications equipment from Huawei or Chinese peer ZTE Corp, citing concern the firms would use their access to spy on U.S. officials.
Previously: U.S. Lawmakers Urge AT&T to Cut Ties With Huawei
Verizon Cancels Plans to Sell Huawei Phone Due to U.S. Government Pressure
U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products
The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 23 2018, @01:15AM (2 children)
Smells like the noise the US fedgov made about some Russian-produced anti-malware software and how it was probably evil and full of nastiness and no one should use it - when a more reasonable explanation is that the Russian-based company couldn't be arsed to whitelist fedgov malware.
Still, I doubt Huawei makes many products where the purchaser is the actual owner of the hardware, so forgive me if my eyes are still dry.
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Friday March 23 2018, @04:44AM (1 child)
I once had a phone interview with huawei (sf bay area). one question that they asked me stood out in my mind, 'why do you want to work for a chinese company?'. hey, I just wanted to WORK, I cared less about who it was, at the time. (sometimes its like that, especially as you get older and the choices are less, for you). but I was asked why I'd work for a chinese company; not THEIR company but a chinese one. that seemed odd to me.
they never did call me back and I guess I wasn't enough to their liking. go figure.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday March 23 2018, @05:48AM
The answer: "I want to cut out the middleman!"
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