Huawei lobbies Verizon to pay $ 1,000 million in patents

• Huawei has entered Trump's order in the blacklist of brands with which US companies limit their ability to trade.

• The Chinese giant retaliates against companies in the United States.

• It's now Verizon's turn.

The "tech" trade war is moving unchecked between the United States and Huawei. The latest news is that the Chinese giant told him Verizon Communications that the US operator must pay the license fees linked to more than 230 licences Chinese manufacturer of telecommunications equipment.

Overall, claims more than US $ 1,000 million, He published the Wall Street Journal.

The patents in question range from network equipment to telecommunications infrastructure to the technology of the Internet of Things, The sources pointed to the American environment.

This only exacerbates the tension between the Chinese giant and the United States, a relationship that is reaching a limit for many companies that have Huawei among its most valuable customers.

According to the WSJ, an executive of Huawei, responsible for intellectual property licensing, wrote to Verizon to warn him that he should pay for "solving the problem of patent licensing." Verizon is not a Huawei customer, but uses equipment manufactured with components belonging to the brands of the Chinese giant's universe.

Huawei has been fighting with the US government for more than a year. Security experts in the United States fear that rear doors Huawei's telecommunications equipment may allow the Chinese government to spy on communications from Trump and his ministers.

Huawei systematically denies that it could help China to spy on the United States, but they obviously do not believe it.

Reuters consulted T-Mobile and AT & T to find out if they encounter the same problems as Verizon, but they did not respond to requests. Sprint Corp he did not want to comment.

Last month, the United States placed Huawei on a blacklist prohibiting annotated companies from dealing with US companies for security reasons, forcing some global technology companies to sever ties with the world's largest manufacturer of Telecommunications equipment. One of them is Google itself.

The "war" was already raging since the end of 2019, with Washington favoring the arrest and extradition of Huawei 's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, to Canada. She is the daughter of the founder of the Chinese group.

FedEx, another struggling

Last week, Huawei said it lost confidence in the US carrier FedEx, which handles the delivery of most of its international shipments.

It's like that, The Chinese phone maker has questioned the reliability of FedEx. According to Reuters, according to information provided by Huawei, FedEx has diverted two parcels They are from Japan and were sent to Huawei's headquarters in China. According to the mark of the Asian giant, he redirected them to the United States.

For FedEx, losing the customer would be a big problem: it has a very good market share in the delivery sector in China (20%), only after DHL and above China Post and UPS.

The problem is not minor. The inclusion of Huawei on the Trump blacklist could affect some 1,200 companies that are almost exclusive US suppliers to the Chinese telecommunications group.

Faced with the loss of access to US suppliers, the Chinese giant faces two major problems: cybersecurity and semiconductors.

Another problem: Huawei factories in China use many machines of American origin like Dell and Camalot Prodigy.

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