Huawei has struggled to win customers in the USA, mainly due to a hostile political environment which has repeatedly warned US firms not to deal with the Chinese giant.
A company spokesman later confirmed to Foreign Policy magazine that "It is true that Huawei has adjusted our priority focus to markets that welcome competition and investment, like Europe,"
However, the company is still expected to maintain an R&D facility and may still sell mobile phones, which have not been subjected to the same intense pressure as its network infrastructure sales.
Existing Huawei customer, Japan's Softbank was forced to promise not to use Huawei equipment in the USA in order to secure its takeover bid for Sprint, which may have been the point at which the Chinese firm decided the country simply isn't worth the hassle.
Huawei has repeatedly denied the allegations that it inserts back-doors and exploits for the Chinese military into its network infrastruture.