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I believe it was Huaawei, and maybe it was ZTE, but anyway, one of those Chinese telcoms...Sprint was pondering them for their 4G network equipment, and the Feds told Sprint that if they used them, Sprint would not get any government contracts. The reason being that the Feds thought the Chinese government had backdoors into the equipment, and that they would be able to sniff on any data moving through Sprint's network, had they used that equipment.

A similar story from my employer, which is a smaller cellular operator. Huawei apparently shot us a VERY good price, because they were wanting to bust into the US market somewhere. But we went with Ericsson instead with that concern being one of the reasons for not going with them.