US Bans Sales of Chinese Telecom Brands Huawei, ZTE, Hikvision, Dahua

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-bans-sales-of-huawei-hikvision-zte-and-dahua-equipment/

“The Federal Communications Commission adopted new rules prohibiting communications equipment deemed to pose an unacceptable risk to national security from being authorized for importation or sale in the United States,” reads the press release from the FCC.

“These new rules are an important part of our ongoing actions to protect the American people from national security threats involving telecommunications,” commented Chairwoman J. Rosenworcel.

The U.S. ban covers not only the parent companies but their subsidiaries and affiliates as well.

The U.S. previously accused telecommunication hardware vendor Huawei of stealing intellectual property, research and development data, and for planting backdoors in their products that would potentially allow the Beijing government run espionage operations [1, 2].