
The National Counterintelligence Executive, a U.S. It noted that telecoms are intertwined with computerized controls for electric power grids banking and finance systems gas, oil and water systems and rail and shipping. Huawei and ZTE, which are both based in Shenzhen, China, are rapidly becoming “dominant global players” in the telecommunications market, the report said. It did not provide any hard evidence to back up its concerns, at least not in the unclassified version of the report. The panel cited what it called long-term security risks supposedly linked with the companies’ equipment and services. prospects and may also lead to new strains in trade ties between the United States and China, the world’s two biggest economies.Ĭommittee Chairman Mike Rogers, at a press conference to release the report, said companies that had used Huawei equipment had reported “numerous allegations” of unexpected behavior, including routers supposedly sending large data packs to China late at night. The House Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan concerns are bound to set back the companies’ U.S.

lawmakers’ suspicions and expand in the United States after becoming key players in the worldwide market.

The companies have been fighting an uphill battle to overcome U.S. The report follows an 11-month investigation by the committee into Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and its smaller rival, ZTE Corp.
