How Trump's Huawei Ban Threatens to Throttle Global 5G Rollout
- Phone carriers are preparing for the shift to 5G network
- Sanctions forcing companies to decide on future with Huawei
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Huawei Technologies Co. looked like it would survive a U.S. campaign to persuade its allies to block the supplier from their new mobile networks. Now, President Donald Trump’s move to put the company on an export blacklist threatens to shake the entire telecom industry.
The U.S. move threatens to cut off the world’s largest provider of networking gear and No. 2 smartphone vendor from the U.S. software and semiconductors it needs to make its products.