The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected the call by the United States of America to ban the Chinese mobile manufacturing giant Huawei from helping to build 5G networks in Germany.

US President issued an executive order in October 2019 to restrict Huawei from doing business with any American company. According to the U.S, Huawei was the backdoor spy for the Chinese government in the US.

America, after the ban, has also called on her allies to follow suit and ban Huawei in their respective countries. Australia, New Zealand and Japan have all banned Huawei from all 5G related activities.

Meanwhile, Trump has threatened to withdraw intelligence-sharing from all countries who refused to comply with this directive forcing Germany to pick a side.

Germany-Huawei Relationship

Huawei however, has contributed 70% of Germany’s 4G network. Which makes all German operators Huawei customers. These German operators fear banning Huawei may take years of delay and billions of euros to launch 5G network in the country.

For this reason, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced it will not ban Huawei from shipping a 5G equipment into the country amidst all the pressure from President Trump’s government.

Statistics portal StatCounter reported that Huawei controls 14 percent of the share of the German mobile market as at February 2019. This placed Huawei in a third-place behind Apple and Samsung. In November last year, Huawei opened a new security lab in Germany, City of Bonn to be precise. This building will be where reviews by German regulators of source codes of new Huawei products will be kept.

Huawei’s Success After The U.S. Ban

Huawei is barred from doing business with American companies since October 2019. Many anticipated that this will be a roadblock to the company’s growth in the mobile communications network business.

This isn’t the case as Huawei has been exceedingly growing at a higher pace even after the ban. The recent publication by the Huawei indicates they’re still leading when it comes to the 5G smartphones battle.

With the ban from the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, the company still managed to ship 6.9 million 5G phones in 2019. This is a record market share for a smartphone manufacturing company.

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