| Status | Country | Details | Known Huawei customers | Other major telcos affected by restrictions |
| Govt restrictions | USA | US House of Representatives warned major service providers off using Chinese vendors in 2012, arguing "the risks associated with Huawei's and ZTE's provision of equipment to US critical infrastructure could undermine core US national-security interests." US temporarily banned component sales to ZTE earlier this year | None among Tier 1 telcos, but Sprint acquired Huawei gear with its Clearwire takeover and still had this in its network in 2016, as revealed by Light Reading | AT&T, T-Mobile US, Verizon |
| Govt and operator restrictions | Australia | Both Huawei and ZTE are barred from the 5G market and cannot sell products to NBN Co, Australia's national wholesale network. In January, TPG stops building a 4G network with Huawei | Vodafone Hutchison Australia, TPG | Telstra, Optus |
| Govt restrictions | New Zealand | The government has warned Spark off using Huawei's 5G equipment and by implication would not tolerate 5G deals between Chinese equipment vendors and other telcos | Spark | Vodafone New Zealand, 2degrees |
| Govt and operator restrictions | Japan | Starting in April 2019, Japan's government will ban its ministries and defense forces from buying and deploying IT and telecoms equipment from Chinese companies, citing cybersecurity concerns; SoftBank is reportedly replacing Huawei as a 4G supplier | SoftBank | NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, Rakuten |
| Govt warning; operator restrictions | UK | Security watchdogs have flagged vulnerabilities in Huawei's equipment; telecom incumbent BT is stripping Huawei out of its mobile core and optical networks and says it will not buy any of Huawei's mobile edge computing products | BT, Three UK | O2, Vodafone UK |
| Govt restrictions | Taiwan | Ban on equipment developed by either Huawei or ZTE has been in place for the last five years and was recently renewed, according to press reports | None | Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan Mobile, Far EasTone and Taiwan Star |
| Operator restrictions | France | Orange tells Bloomberg it will not use Huawei as a 5G kit supplier; Orange subsequently confirms to Light Reading that comments were made "in the context of France" | Altice, Bouygues Telecom | Orange, Iliad |
| Operator restrictions | Spain | Vodafone CEO Nick Read says he will "pause" the rollout of Huawei products in core networks, deemed to be the most sensitive part of the infrastructure, amid government security concerns. Vodafone, he said, uses Huawei's core equipment in Spain and some smaller European markets | MásMóvil, Orange, Telefónica, Vodafone | – |
| Govt warning | Poland | Poland is poised to exclude Huawei from its 5G market, according to a Reuters report citing government sources, after its recent arrest of a Huawei employee on charges of spying | Orange, Play, Polkomtel, T-Mobile | – |
