New Australian government upholds ban on China's Huawei

[jes]

New Australian government upholds ban on China's Huawei

Australia’s newly elected conservative government is upholding a ban on China’s Huawei from bidding for work on the country’s $38 billion National Broadband Network (NBN)

 

[krycor]

Keeps European companies alive with such a move.. in Africa the chineese vendors are killing it

 

[Dlamaqhinga]

As if the European Co's don't spy

 

[Nerfherder]

Keeps European companies alive with such a move.. in Africa the chineese vendors are killing it

I think that is the real reason.

 

[Tokolotshe]

The U.S. House Intelligence Committee last year described Huawei as a national security threat and urged American firms to stop doing business with the Shenzhen-based company. Huawei has denied the U.S. allegations that its equipment could be used by Beijing for espionage.

Perhaps it simply that America does not like competition. Or perhaps Huawei does not have the features US products have??
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/nsa-router-hacking/

The NSA runs a massive, full-time hacking operation targeting foreign systems, the latest leaks from Edward Snowden show. But unlike conventional cybercriminals, the agency is less interested in hacking PCs and Macs. Instead, America’s spooks have their eyes on the internet routers and switches that form the basic infrastructure of the net, and are largely overlooked as security vulnerabilities.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/100913-intel-nsa-274676.html

Found DLink feature:
http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/18645/hacking/d-link-backdoor.html

The truth is out there somewhere ... I hope.