Huawei, ZTE may benefit from US security report
Congressional watchdog finds no evidence of cyber incidents affecting country's networks
A new United States government report on network security could have positive implications for Huawei Technologies and ZTE's business in the country, the world's largest telecommunications market.
The US Government Accountability Office released this month a report that found no recent evidence of cyber-security incidents affecting the country's telecommunications networks.
Often called the "congressional watchdog", the GAO is the audit, evaluation and investigative arm of the US Congress.
Its latest report followed the publication in October last year of a separate congressional study, which claimed that the telecommunications infrastructure equipment from Huawei and ZTE could threaten national security.
Based on an 11-month probe conducted by the House Intelligence Committee, the October study urged US companies to stop doing business with both Huawei and ZTE for fear of possible spying and cyberattacks by China.
The two companies rejected the findings, which have stymied their efforts to crack the US telecommunications network equipment market.
The GAO report, however, found that "no cyber-based incidents involving the core and access communications networks had been reported using [established] mechanisms to the federal government from January 2010 to October 2012".