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HUAWEI pushed out of Wi-Fi Alliance (Update: Reinstated)
June 07, 2025
Update, June 30, 2025 (12:35 PM ET):Not long after theSD Association brought HUAWEI backinto the fold, we now have news (viaDigital Trends) that HUAWEI is also back in the Wi-Fi Alliance.
The company was pushed out of the Alliance late last week, as described in the article below.
The Wi-Fi Alliance hasn’t issued a statement about HUAWEI’s reinstated membership, but theofficial sitedoes show HUAWEI as a member once again.
Although this reinstatement means that HUAWEI can once again use the official Wi-Fi seal on its products going forward, it, more importantly, means that HUAWEI will continue to have early-access and influence over new Wi-Fi technologies. Read below for more info on what this means.
In related news,HUAWEI is also backin the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC), a consortium which sets global standards for the microelectronics industry.
Original Article, June 17, 2025 (05:45 PM ET):The dominoes keep tumbling forHuaweisince the Trump administration added the company toits so-called Entity List, effectively barring the Chinese telco from doing business with organizations based in the United States.
So far, HUAWEI has lost access toGoogle, Android,Qualcomm, Intel, Microsoft, and — perhaps most devastatingly —Arm. Now, it is also temporarily losing its membership in the Wi-Fi Alliance (viaNikkei Asian Review), which could have serious long-term effects on its business.
Here is a statement on the matter from the Alliance:
The Wi-Fi Alliance is a consortium of companies — includingApple, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Intel, as well as many others — who influence the development of new wireless technologies. Although HUAWEI’s temporary loss of membership doesn’t mean the company can’t create Wi-Fi products anymore, it does mean HUAWEI will no longer have an influence on where Wi-Fi technology is going.
In other words, if its loss of membership in the Wi-Fi Alliance sticks, it won’t have much of a short-term effect; in the long-term, it could mean HUAWEI will be far less competitive.
A possible response to this could be HUAWEI and China developing their own Wi-Fi consortium or joining with other consortiums not based in the U.S. While these are viable options, without a membership to the U.S.-based Wi-Fi Alliance, HUAWEI will have a seriously difficult time competing in the global market.
In related news, HUAWEI was also barred from theSD Associationtoday, and several HUAWEI devices were also removed from theAndroid Enterprise Recommended program.
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