A senior Huawei executive has expressed disinterest in the US telecoms market, a sign that the company’s enthusiasm for breaking into the country has cooled following concerted political opposition.

“We are not interested in the US market anymore. Generally speaking, it’s not a market that we pay much attention to,” said Eric Xu, the company’s executive vice president, in comments reported by Reuters.

Huawei has lobbied hard to enter the US market but has faced rebuffs, such as when the US House Intelligence Committee issued a report last autumn warning potential customers not to use Huawei and ZTE because of their links to the Chinese state.

Last month, Sprint and its potential buyer Softbank both assured the committee that they would not buy Huawei equipment.

Xu was speaking at the company’s annual analyst conference.

He also reduced the sales forecasts for Huawei’s enterprise business, which sells telecoms equipment to business rather than network operators, to $10 billion by 2017, a significant reduction from a previous projection of $15 billion. However the unit’s revenues are still expected to grow by 45 per cent this year.

The enterprise unit only contributed about five per cent of total sales in 2012.  The carrier business delivers nearly three quarters of sales.