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State Department and DoD Move to Expand Bans on Huawei and ZTE, as CNAS Proposes Open Interfaces Approach

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, August 11th, 2020

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State Department and DoD Move to Expand Bans on Huawei and ZTE, as CNAS Proposes Open Interfaces Approach

Soldier in glasses of virtual reality. The concept of the future.

The U.S. State Department and DoD are moving to expand bans on the use of telecommunications equipment by Chinese firms, Huawei and ZTE, for 5G networks, as the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is proposing an alternative, open interface approach. On Aug. 5, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the State Department's Clean Network approach banning Chinese equipment from "untrusted vendors," such as Huawei and ZTE, would expand to include five new lines of effort, including mobile…

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