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Following US woes, HUAWEI gets green light for 5G stations in Europe
June 19, 2025
Despite theP20 and P20 Pro, HUAWEI’s ambitions have taken a knock in 2018, as U.S. networksrecently shunnedthe Chinese manufacturer. The company enjoys big business in Europe though, so it’s no surprise to hear that HUAWEI5Gbase stations have received the green light there.
According toXinhua News(and spotted byTechNode), HUAWEI is the first company to receive a “CE type examination certificate” for 5G base stations from the German TÜV SÜD authority. The Chinese publication notes that the testing and certification process took roughly two months to complete.
The certification marks a key stepping stone towards commercial 5G network launches, joining a raft of other HUAWEI/5G news in recent weeks.
HUAWEI 5G plans take shape
Last week, the companyannouncedthat its first 5G phone was coming in Q3 2019. It’s believed that this could be the Mate 30, given HUAWEI’s tendency to launch a Mate phone in the second half of the year. The company also used theHUAWEI Matebook X Proevent atMWC 2018to tout its 5G consumer premises equipment, marking yet another link in the company’s 5G chain.
The firm’s milestones might not come as a surprise when you hear that it’s spent$600 million on 5G researchsince 2009. Back then,LTEwasn’t even a real-world thing.
The latest news also illustrates a marked difference between HUAWEI’s operations in Europe and the U.S. Europe is one of the company’s most important markets, with Counterpoint Research saying that the companyships more phonesin Italy and Spain than Apple.
The renewed push into Europe is a no-brainer for the company. The United States is off-limits following a debacle earlier this year that saw carriersdrop the HUAWEI Mate 10, reportedly due to pressure from the U.S. government. So the decision to plough resources into the EMEA markets, in addition to the wider Asian region, is really the only one.
They aren’t the only Chinese brand feeling the pressure from the U.S. though, asZTEfaces a seven year supply ban for selling telecoms equipment to Iran. It’s believed that ZTE could lose its crucial supply ofQualcomm Snapdragon processorsas well asAndroid-associated licensesif the ban passes.
Much like HUAWEI, ZTE’s expansion ambitions are reliant on a license toGoogle Mobile Services, being the popular suite ofGoogle appsand APIs that power Android devices outside China. But unlike HUAWEI and itshomegrown chips, ZTE uses Snapdragon processors to power millions of its smartphones. In other words, HUAWEI is in a much better situation right nowthan its fellow Chinese brand.
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