Cloud Computing: Huawei Defends Equipment Security Amid Spying Concerns

Grazed from Bloomberg. Author: Editorial Staff.

Huawei Technologies Co. said it doesn’t pose a U.S. security threat as China’s largest maker of telecommunications equipment defends itself against foreign governments’ concerns that it aids intelligence agencies.

The Shenzhen-based company “never sold key equipment into U.S. networks,” Deputy Chairman Guo Ping said today after the company released its annual report. Huawei became one “of the world’s top three smartphone makers” in the fourth quarter and expects the proportion of sales from networking equipment, the area that has drawn foreign scrutiny, will decline…

Huawei is fighting concerns over cybersecurity in markets from the U.S. to Australia as American intelligence agencies and security companies traced web attacks to China. Softbank Corp. (9984) and Sprint Nextel Corp. told a U.S. lawmaker last month they won’t integrate equipment from the Chinese company into Sprint’s network after they merge, the legislator said. “There has never been any incident of our product threatening cyber security or network security,” said Guo. Huwaei serves more than 600 telecommunications operators in more than 140 countries, he said…

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