{"id":8056,"date":"2021-07-08T09:09:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T13:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:48:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:48:54","slug":"huawei-volkswagen-supplier-sign-deal-for-4g-patent-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/huawei-volkswagen-supplier-sign-deal-for-4g-patent-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei, Volkswagen Supplier Sign Deal For 4G Patent Licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Huawei announced Wednesday that it has signed a patent licensing agreement with an unnamed supplier of parts for Volkswagen, amid speculation in reports that it is Luxembourg-based Rolling Wireless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal includes 4G connectivity in the vehicles, with Huawei predicting that 30 million vehicles will eventually have their patent licenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese company said its biggest business was with the automotive industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April, Huawei reported a 16.5% drop in first-quarter revenue, but earnings were expected because the company sold its Honor brand in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While revenue declined, margins increased due to a $600 million patent license and ongoing efforts to improve the quality of operations and management efficiency, the company said in an earlier release.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/huawei-gets-paid-by-volkswagen-supplier-for-4g-patent-licences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei has signed a patent licensing agreement with an unnamed supplier of parts for Volkswagen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8056"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8085,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions\/8085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}