Sorry, No Huawei Mate 10 Pro for AT&T at CES

LAS VEGAS—The Las Vegas Convention Eye is plastered with Huawei ads, merely the global No. 3 cell phone maker'southward CES may take been ruined today. The Wall Street Periodical reported, and we can independently confirm, that Huawei won't be able to announce a deal to sell its Mate 10 Pro phone with AT&T tomorrow.

The Journal goes fifty-fifty further than what we've heard from our own sources, saying that AT&T has "walked away from" its unabridged deal to sell Huawei phones. We'd heard of a delay, but not a cancellation.

The new study counters a previous report from The Information that AT&T would start selling the Mate x in February, and puts into question Huawei CEO Richard Yu's proclamation in late 2022 that United states of america carriers would showtime selling his phones "next year."

Huawei has been butting its head against the US market for years. It came under scrutiny from Congress in 2022 nigh potentially spying for the Chinese government, which it denies vehemently. Only since and so, Huawei's network equipment has been abomination to US carriers and the company has had trouble finding a foothold for its phones at carriers, which control the vast majority of United states of america telephone sales.

I've written before almost why Huawei has failed in the US where ZTE, which as well came under a Congressional spotlight at one point, has done well. A lot of it may come downward to having a highly democratic, locally controlled United states of america subsidiary that develops specific products for the United states of america and builds stiff relationships with US carriers and retailers. ZTE did that, and Huawei didn't.

Could It Be the Radios?

If Huawei is simply trying to push the global Mate 10 into the US market, it may not be making it through AT&T's labs. We recently had Cellular Insights analyze the RF performance of leading Android and iOS smartphones, and included a global Mate 10 Pro in the test but not in the resulting story.

That's because the Mate 10 Pro scored very poorly on the U.s.'s popular LTE Band 4, especially in weak signal conditions. The Mate ten Pro completely lost Band 4 connectivity at -124dBm, 6dBm worse than the LG V30, and at pretty much every level blow -101dBm it performed worse than all of the leading smartphones we tested, including the Intel-based iPhone.

At the fourth dimension, we thought this was just considering the Mate 10 Pro hadn't been tuned and optimized for Band 4. But perhaps the results we saw acquired AT&T to reconsider carrying the phone.

Huawei, for its part, still promises some sort of telephone launch tomorrow. Previously, it's sold its phones through online retailers, to relatively niggling effect. An unlocked launch for the Mate 10 Pro will also put Huawei upwardly confronting its own subsidiary Honor's similar View 10, which is anticipated to cost much less. (The View 10 costs $474 in Bharat; the Mate ten Pro costs roughly double that.)

"Over the past 5 years Huawei has proven itself by delivering premium products with integrity globally and in the US market. On Tuesday Huawei volition innovate new products to the US market, including availabilty," the company said in a statement.

Source: https://sea.pcmag.com/lg-v30/19000/sorry-no-huawei-mate-10-pro-for-att-at-ces

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