Rocky road of innovation
One reason behind the popularity of 5G in the country would be the technological advancements brought by the Chinese tech giant Huawei. Most well-known for manufacturing smartphones, Huawei dominated the 5G smartphone market in China and has been investing into cloud technologies and corresponding infrastructures in order to maintain its market leadership in the tech industry. However, as a response to U.S. sanctions the company has lost significant shares in the Chinese smartphone market and has since been overtaken by Apple and Vivo.Due to the sensitive nature of such technology, Huawei has faced various obstacles in expanding into the overseas 5G market, especially since more and more countries started to recognize 5G infrastructures as a key aspect of national security. Many have halted pilot projects or collaborations with Huawei, with a few of them announcing to ban Huawei from participating in the local 5G infrastructure market.