On April 16 local time, the US Department of Commerce issued an announcement that because ZTE violated the settlement agreement signed with the US last year, it was prohibited for US enterprises to sell components to ZTE in the next seven years. In addition, the ban also included software and equipment and other technical products. Now, according to foreign media reports, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is considering stopping authorizing Android mobile services to ZTE.

Foreign media said that Android is an open source operating system, and it is difficult for any organization to organize ZTE to use it, because ZTE can use all the Android source code and then establish its own branch systems, such as Amazon's Fire OS and Alibaba Cloud OS, so it is more likely that ZTE will be disabled from Google's mobile services (GMS), This is a set of Android software and services with closed source code, including Google software such as Play Store. Without Google's Android mobile service, ZTE's smart phones can hardly survive in the international market.

It is reported that ZTE and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, have not yet determined whether the ban of the U.S. Department of Commerce includes the ban on ZTE's use of Android or Android's mobile services. However, at present, the industry believes that ZTE's ban on the use of Qualcomm chips is a certainty. If the company loses the right to use Android again, it will be a fatal blow to the sales of its smart phones in the international market.

It should be noted that if Alphabet revokes ZTE's GMS license, the company will not be able to normally sell smartphones in overseas markets, but can use its own applications to replace Google App Store and other software in GMS in China.

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