{"id":76504,"date":"2013-04-25T09:43:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T07:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=76504"},"modified":"2013-04-25T11:45:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T09:45:37","slug":"huawei-and-us-security-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/76504-huawei-and-us-security-battle.html","title":{"rendered":"Huawei and US security battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei<\/a> says it would no longer focus on the US market for its core business, months after Washington effectively closed the door on it by labelling it a security threat.<\/p>\n

The US Congress last year warned telecom equipment supplied by Huawei and another Chinese company, ZTE<\/a>, could be used for spying and called for their exclusion from government contracts and acquisitions.<\/p>\n

Huawei has denied those claims and accused the US government of protectionism, while seeking to improve transparency by releasing annual reports despite not being a listed company, but to no effect.<\/p>\n

“Considering the situation our company currently faces in the US, it would be very difficult for the US market to become a primary revenue source or a key growth area for our carrier network business in the foreseeable future,” Huawei said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The carrier network sector, in which it provides telecom companies with equipment and services to run their telecoms operations, is Huawei’s main business.<\/p>\n

A news report quoted Huawei’s executive vice-president Eric Xu as telling analysts in a meeting at its headquarters in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Tuesday that the firm had shifted away from the US over the past year.<\/p>\n

“We are not interested in the US market any more,” he was quoted as saying by the Financial Times.<\/p>\n

A Huawei spokesman could not confirm the report.<\/p>\n

But the statement, provided to AFP late Wednesday, said Xu’s comment applied to its carrier network business, which derived growth mainly from developed markets outside the United States.<\/p>\n

“In spite of this challenge, our US employees remain committed to providing quality services for our customers,” it said.<\/p>\n

Another Huawei executive said this month that the company still hoped to solve the “problems” it has in the United States.<\/p>\n

“I believe one day we could potentially solve the challenges and problems in the US,” said chief executive officer Guo Ping.<\/p>\n

Huawei, which was founded by former Chinese army engineer Ren Zhengfei, was also barred from tendering for Australia’s national broadband network last year on security grounds.<\/p>\n

More on Huawei<\/h3>\n

Huawei scrutinised over security threat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Huawei banned in Australia over communist \u201chacking fears\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Huawei trying to break into the US<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

ZTE confirms security hole in smartphone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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