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posted by janrinok on Friday April 20 2018, @04:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the trade-wars dept.

China's ZTE slams U.S. ban, says company's survival at risk

China's ZTE Corp said on Friday that a U.S. ban on the sale of parts and software to the company was unfair and threatens its survival, and vowed to safeguard its interests through all legal means.

The United States this week imposed a ban on sales by American companies to ZTE for seven years, saying the Chinese company had broken a settlement agreement with repeated false statements - a move that threatens to cut off its supply chain.

"It is unacceptable that BIS insists on unfairly imposing the most severe penalty on ZTE even before the completion of investigation of facts," ZTE said in its first response since the ban was announced, referring to the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security. "The Denial Order will not only severely impact the survival and development of ZTE, but will also cause damages to all partners of ZTE including a large number of U.S. companies," ZTE said in a statement.

ZTE said it regards compliance as the cornerstone of its strategy, adding it invested $50 million in export control compliance projects in 2017 and plans to invest more this year. A senior U.S. Commerce Department official told Reuters earlier this week that it is unlikely to lift the ban.

Also at WSJ.

Previously: U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products
The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical
Huawei CEO Still Committed to the U.S. Market
Rural Wireless Association Opposes U.S. Government Ban on Huawei and ZTE Equipment

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @06:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @06:04PM (#669740)

    I would personally like to see cellular modems designed with a WORM 'flash log' for the cellular modem, have it keep a timestamp when the clock is properly configured, a hash of the image uploaded, and maybe some other metadata to help determine if it was an authorized or modified firmware image. Then require all cellular firmware to be open sourced, which will allow HAMs and programmers to audit the code and provide patches to fix protocol flaws or radio transmission flaws in the source code, which the FCC, CE, etc can then sign periodically for verified images. The benefit being more eyes to ensure security, more transparency which is good for everyone except the intelligence community, and the ability for people with unsupported devices to find an updated and authenticated image for their modem based on improvements in the common codebase for that cellular modem platform. The only issues that could derail this is non-standard transmitter designs, or non-standard antenna designs, and those could both be worked around similiarly to the ARM BSP tables, provide a template image that enumerates the hardware geometry such that the operating system/modem firmware can make the adjustments need to keep signals within the expected transmission powers and frequencies.