"Fortune" declare : AT&T Testing Huawei Smartphones for Network Compatibility

Now Huawei is facing up to one of the big realities of the U.S. phone market: most phone sales still go through the carriers. To crack the U.S. market, Huawei has been offering higher end models with premium features like Leica cameras. Five years ago, Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei sold barely 1% of mobile phones worldwide. An initial strategy of cozying up to Google flopped and a more recent attempt based on selling unlocked phones via online retailers did little to move the needle. The Chinese manufacturer is in the early stages of having AT&T approve its proprietary Kirin mobile phone chip set for use on AT&T's network, according to a person familiar with the situation.


As it stated in Chinese smartphone maker Huawei is hoping to crack into the U.S. market by working with Dallas-based AT&T, according to reports by The Information and Fortune. Huawei, which has a U.S. headquarters in Plano, is the world's third largest smartphone maker, after Samsung and Apple. Last year, Huawei made up nearly 10 percent of the global smartphone market. Richard Yu, who leads Huawei's consumer electronics unit, told Fortune that the Chinese smartphone maker would like to surpass Apple's sales -- and its market share of 15 percent -- in 2018. In the U.S., Huawei accounts for less than .04 percent of the market, Fortune said.


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Huawei Wooing AT&T In Pursuit Of U.S. Smartphone Foothold

Huawei Wooing AT&T In Pursuit Of U.S. smartphone Foothold 3/23/2017 12:30:00 PM EasternAny foreign manufacturer's dream is to crack the U.S. market and No. In its latest attempt to break into America, Huawei is trying to get its Chinese mobile chipset accredited by AT&T." 3 smartphone maker Huawei is no different. "Huawei is making a fresh attempt at launching into the US market to challenge Apple and Samsung's monopoly on premium smartphones. After sampling domestic success with its acclaimed Nexus 6P phablet for Google , and poking around the retail and carrier periphery with limited placements at Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and Consumer Cellular, the Chinese vendor is aiming high by seeking chipset approval from AT&T.




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