Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, June 17th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Two related stories to start off with today. First, sources are telling

Bloomberg that Huawei is bracing for a 40 to 60 percent drop in overseas

smartphone sales as the US ban begins hurting its business.

That would ding Huawei's overall revenue by about $30 billion over the course of two years.

Quoting China's largest technology company is crunching internal estimates and exploring

options, including pulling the latest model of its marquee overseas label, The 20, people familiar with the matter said.

The device begins selling in parts of Europe June 21st, including France and the UK, but

executives are monitoring the launch and may cut off shipments if it sells poorly as expected, they said, asking not to be

identified discussing internal matters.

Already, two of France's largest carriers aren't bothering with the honor at all, two people familiar with the matter said.

Huawei sales and marketing managers are internally charting a drop in volume of anywhere

between 40 to 60 million smartphones this year, the people said.

That's a big chunk of an international business

that in 2018 accounted for almost half of the

2006 million phones it moved.

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