Google has announced it will sever business ties with Huawei following the Trump administration’s ban. However, they later relaxed the ban for three months. Not only Google, but several other American companies have stated that they will not provide any technology services to Huawei. However, despite the news of Google’s announcement, Huawei had to read the bans of several companies many times before, which are unknown to many. It started several years ago today. This article is about the detailed news and timeline of Huawei’s sanctions.

October 2012 7

• The Canadian government is concerned about reports of eavesdropping on ZTE and Huawei by the US government and has instructed Canadian companies not to use Huawei’s equipment.

January 2017 6

• A federal bill was passed to stop the US government from working with Huawei and ZTE.
• For these reasons, the popular US mobile operator AT&T canceled a contract with Huawei.
• Another US operator, Verizon Huawei Mobile, decided not to sell through their carrier.

March 2017 6

• The popular American supermarket Best Buy stopped selling Huawei phones from their store.

May 2018 7

• Huawei and ZTE phones are banned from stores located in US military bases.

June 2018 6

• Huawei has been banned from using the National Broadband Network or NBN’s 5G network in Australia.

July 2018 7

• Open source cross-platform video player app VLC blacklists Huawei Mobile from their app. They were the first third party app developers to do this.

August 2017 6

• The use of Huawei and ZTE products for official use in the United States was completely banned.

September 2017 6

• The popular benchmarking app 3DMark blocks Huawei from using their app. Huawei has been accused of misappropriating benchmarking scores.

December 2017 6

• Huawei is deprived of official support from all major US mobile operators.
• Huawei is deprived of all official contracts.

May 2019 6

• Google bans Huawei from using their Android and Google Play services.
• Companies like Qualcomm, Intel, Broadcom canceled all agreements with Huawei.
• Microsoft picks up Huawei products from their online store.