Huawei competence be making inroads into a US consumersmartphone market, but a Chinese telecom supplier’s attempts to mangle into large commercial operation have been stonewalled. Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that Sprint is incompatible both Huawei and aspirant ZTE from a multi-billion dollar contract — where they would have been the lowest bidders — essentially because of inhabitant security concerns. The US Secretary of Commerce reportedly called Sprint CEO Dan Hesse to voice concerns about letting firms with possible ties to a Chinese government supply internal communications infrastructure, the perspective also penned by eight US senators behind in August. “DoD is really concerned about China’s emerging cyber capabilities as well as any intensity disadvantage within or hazard to DoD networks,” a Department of Defense told a announcement, but naming Huawei or ZTE without delay. We’re not doctors, though it sounds similar to someone’s got a critical box of supercomputer envy.

Via Engadget