it seems like the end of the Huawei ban could be in sight, kind of. The Commerce
Department announced it will finally allow select US tech companies to sell
to Huawei pursuing it doesn't compromise national security
so the Commerce Department has blacklisted Huawei for months upon
months now that means no US business can have any
sort of transaction with Huawei so that includes selling chips that includes
selling software the way to get around this though was to apply for a license
through the Commerce Department and then the Commerce Department would allegedly
at some point approved the license or not approve the license and if approved
that company could start doing business with Huawei so companies have been
applying for licenses for months now the Commerce Department has actually
received 260 applications for licenses which the Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross
has said is much more than frankly he expected so finally now the Commerce
Department has the green light to go through these and approve some and not
approve probably many many more so you might remember that a few weeks ago I
talked about how the huawei mate 30 was released without any Google mobile
services support so that means that the mate 30 was originally released with
bare-bones Android whatever was available open source and that also
means that there weren't any Google specific apps pre-programmed
on the mate 30 so think Google Play Store Gmail YouTube that sort of stuff
so there was for a bit of time a back door it was this website called LZ play
and you could go on to that website download Google mobile services for your
Huawei mate 30 or maybe 30 Pro and it seemed like for the most part your
Huawei phone would operate as normal as you would expect it to operate with
Google Apps so if the commerce department approves these licenses
relatively soon this would be really really good for the European market who
is expecting to receive the mate 30 in May 30 Pro soon and the European market
is by and large used to having these Google Apps on any Android phone so
here's what's possible to expect once the commerce department starts rolling
out these approvals the huge huge thing that might happen
is that Google and Huawei can work together once again and that means that
Google is able to offer Android support to current Huawei phones like the mate
30 make 30 Pro it's important to remember that this band really only
applied to future Huawei devices and the mate 30 pro was included in those future
devices another thing that can happen is that US chip makers like micron or Intel
can now sell to Wow way without needing to find some sort of loophole in the
band so now assuming that their license is approved they can have probably a
more normal business relationship much like what they were doing before before
the band ever happened I highly doubt that Huawei hardware will ever appear in
u.s. 5g networks that's because it's an alleged national security risk
remember the whole reason that this band started is because of allegations that
Huawei could use its equipment to spy on anyone using its equipment and report
that information back to the Chinese government this has never been proven
it's just alleged but for that reason it's extremely unlikely Huawei equipment
will ever appear in future generation networks and to be honest they're not
going to be appearing in current networks either there's a whole program
right now for smaller rural telecom providers to rip and replace all Huawei
equipment and that's actually being funded by the US government and even
though this is a somewhat friendly move by the Commerce Department to wow way
this does not signal the end of the us-china trade war but trade talks could
be coming soon even as early as this month that's when there could be some
sort of agreement or preliminary agreement reached between the US and
China it's important to remember that even though the Commerce Department says
it will approve these licenses soon we don't know exactly when they'll actually
be approved and the Commerce Department expects to decline
many of the 260 applications they received so stay tuned to find out which
companies are in fact granted licenses so what do you think of the u.s. finally
lifting parts of this month's long ban let me know in the comments below and
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