The Huawei crackdown could be a disaster for small carriers

After years of mounting suspicions, the United States government is making its biggest push yet to oust Chinese tech companies from American networks, and Huawei is feeling the pressure. The Trump administration is reportedly considering an order that would ban wireless carriers from purchasing Huawei or ZTE equipment, and another report said the US was pushing allies to also drop Huawei hardware. In a Senate appearance this week, American intelligence chiefs will likely cite Chinese companies’ 5G work as a key threat to US interests. A crackdown on any major company inevitably has unintended consequences, and companies in the US and abroad are already surveying the fallout. Colleges have reportedly been stepping away from using the... Continue reading…