Can I still use Huawei in Canada?

Bell’s and Telus’s networks use Huawei equipment, and the bill to replace the gear could run into the hundreds of millions for each company.

As a result, Huawei was blocked from being able to include Google’s software and services with its Android phones (via Google). … As a result of the U.S. ban, as well as similar actions worldwide, Huawei has taken a number of steps to survive. The company has migrated to HarmonyOS, a fork of the Android operating system.

All of Canada’s ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence-sharing allies have banned Chinese telecommunications company Huawei from their 5G networks.7 Ara 2021

If you own a Google-less Huawei device launched after June 2019, you’ll continue to see Android upgrades and security patches as usual . In fact, Huawei has a roadmap for the rollout of EMUI 11 (based on Android 10). Eventually, those phones will receive Harmony OS and get even more updates, supposedly.

China on May 16, 2019, slammed a decision by the U.S. government to put telecom equipment giant Huawei on a blacklist and said it will take steps to protect its companies, in a further test of ties as the superpowers clash over trade.27 Ara 2021

“Although Canadian operators have announced different 5G partners for their future network buildout, the reality right now is that Huawei equipment remains in current networks in most major Canadian cities, and many remote regions of Canada ,” said Alykhan Velshi, Huawei Canada’s vice president of corporate affairs.1 Ara 2021