Australian military phasing out Huawei and ZTE smartphones

BEIJING – A report from the Chinese media group, Caixin, says Australia’s military is phasing out use of Chinese smartphones from Huawei and ZTE, dealing a further setback to the two groups after similar action in both the U.S. and Australia in regards to their older networking equipment businesses - due to security concerns.

Australia’s defence department had previously bought and issued Huawei and ZTE phones, but there are no longer any Huawei phones in service, a spokeswoman told Australia’s Fairfax Media.

She added that some “ageing” phones from ZTE Corp. still in use will eventually be replaced by other brands when they are retired.  www.webershandwick.cn (ATI).