House Intelligence Committee members said they remain skeptical and frustrated about the response from Chinese telecom firms Huawei and ZTE to their investigation into whether the companies posed a security threat to the U.S. The committee has been investigating whether the Chinese government is using the companies as agents to commit espionage and threaten critical U.S. infrastructure (CD Nov 18 p5). The committee called in executives from both companies Thursday -- Charles Ding, Huawei’s senior vice president, and Zhu Jinyun, ZTE’s senior vice president for North America and Europe -- to answer questions under oath they think the companies haven’t properly responded to during the investigation.
House Intelligence Committee members said they remain skeptical and frustrated about the response from Chinese telecom firms Huawei and ZTE to their investigation into whether the companies posed a security threat to the U.S. The committee has been investigating whether the Chinese government is using the companies as agents to commit espionage and threaten critical U.S. infrastructure. The committee called in executives from both companies Thursday -- Charles Ding, Huawei’s senior vice president, and Zhu Jinyun, ZTE’s senior vice president for North America and Europe -- to answer questions under oath they think the companies haven’t properly responded to during the investigation.
Opponents of the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association’s (ETNO) proposed revisions to the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR) have misinterpreted the proposal as an attempt to regulate the Internet, said ETNO Chairman Luigi Gambardella in an interview. The U.S. has been one of the most prominent critics of the ETNO proposal in recent months, particularly since it publicly released its own ITR position ahead of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT). Delegates to the conference, beginning in Dubai Dec. 3, will seek a consensus on revisions to the treaty-level ITR. Terry Kramer, head of the U.S. delegation to WCIT, has publicly criticized the ETNO proposal and other nations’ proposals that the U.S. claims could wrest control of the Internet from current stakeholders like the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers and give it to the United Nations’ ITU (CD Aug 2 p1). The U.S.’s initial WCIT filing also reflected that position (CD Aug 6 p2).
Opponents of the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association’s (ETNO) proposed revisions to the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR) have misinterpreted the proposal as an attempt to regulate the Internet, said ETNO Chairman Luigi Gambardella in an interview. The U.S. has been one of the most prominent critics of the ETNO proposal in recent months, particularly since it publicly released its own ITR position ahead of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT). Delegates to the conference, beginning in Dubai Dec. 3, will seek a consensus on revisions to the treaty-level ITR. Terry Kramer, head of the U.S. delegation to WCIT, has publicly criticized the ETNO proposal and other nations’ proposals that the U.S. claims could wrest control of the Internet from current stakeholders like ICANN and give it to the United Nations’ ITU (WID Aug 2 p2). The U.S.’s initial WCIT filing also reflected that position (WID Aug 6 p1).
A Chinese delegation to a joint U.S.-China roundtable discussion on spectrum issues Wednesday claimed China is not dealing with the same spectrum capacity issues as the U.S. That’s because China has not “felt our pain yet,” Cisco’s Government Affairs Director Mary Brown said Thursday during a recap of the event for the Telecommunications Industry Association, which also organized the roundtable. “Here in the U.S. ... we are gobbling up spectrum at a rapid rate,” Brown said on the webcast recap event (http://xrl.us/bnooib). “They're a little bit behind the curve,” Brown said of China. “Their technologies tend to be more purely 3G technologies; they have not started deploying LTE technologies. So they're not yet feeling the pain that we feel or our colleagues in Europe feel when it comes to spectrum."
Apple lost its patent lawsuit against Samsung in Japan Friday, when Tokyo District Judge Tamotsu Shoji dismissed Apple’s case and ordered the company to pay court costs. Apple had claimed in its lawsuit that Samsung had violated Apple patents related to its iPhone and iPad lines, according to Bloomberg. Japan’s ruling came a week after a U.S. District Court jury in San Jose, Calif., found Samsung had violated several of Apple’s iPhone patents and awarded Apple more than $1 billion in damages (CED Aug 28 p2). Apple sought 100 million yen (the equivalent of $1.3 million) in damages from its lawsuit in Japan, Bloomberg reported. Apple now wants a ban on the sale of eight Samsung smartphones in the U.S., including several from the company’s Galaxy series (CED Aug 29 p1). The Tokyo court ruled against a similar request after dismissing the lawsuit, according to Bloomberg (http://xrl.us/bnnwds).
Apple lost its patent lawsuit against Samsung in Japan Friday, when Tokyo District Judge Tamotsu Shoji dismissed Apple’s case and ordered the company to pay court costs. Apple had claimed in its lawsuit that Samsung had violated Apple patents related to its iPhone and iPad lines, according to Bloomberg. Japan’s ruling came a week after a U.S. District Court jury in San Jose, Calif., found Samsung had violated several of Apple’s iPhone patents and awarded Apple more than $1 billion in damages (WID Aug 28 p2). Apple sought 100 million yen (the equivalent of $1.3 million) in damages from its lawsuit in Japan, Bloomberg reported. Apple now wants a ban on the sale of eight Samsung smartphones in the U.S., including several from the company’s Galaxy series (WID Aug 29 p2). The Tokyo court ruled against a similar request after dismissing the lawsuit, according to Bloomberg (http://xrl.us/bnnwds).
Apple lost its patent lawsuit against Samsung in Japan Friday, when Tokyo District Judge Tamotsu Shoji dismissed Apple’s case and ordered the company to pay court costs. Apple had claimed in its lawsuit that Samsung had violated Apple patents related to its iPhone and iPad lines, according to Bloomberg. Japan’s ruling came a week after a U.S. District Court jury in San Jose, Calif., found Samsung had violated several of Apple’s iPhone patents and awarded Apple more than $1 billion in damages (CD Aug 28 p6). Apple sought 100 million yen (the equivalent of $1.3 million) in damages from its lawsuit in Japan, Bloomberg reported. Apple now wants a ban on the sale of eight Samsung smartphones in the U.S., including several from the company’s Galaxy series (CD Aug 29 p3). The Tokyo court ruled against a similar request after dismissing the lawsuit, according to Bloomberg (http://xrl.us/bnnwds).
Apple must wait until Dec. 6 to argue in court for its request for a permanent ban on the U.S. sale of eight Samsung smartphones, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said in an order Tuesday. Apple was initially set to argue for the permanent ban at a previously-scheduled Sept. 20 hearing, at which Koh was expected to issue a final decision on the outcome of Apple’s lawsuit against Samsung over design and utility patent violations.
Apple must wait until Dec. 6 to argue in court for its request for a permanent ban on the U.S. sale of eight Samsung smartphones, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said in an order Tuesday. Apple was initially set to argue for the permanent ban at a previously-scheduled Sept. 20 hearing, at which Koh was expected to issue a final decision on the outcome of Apple’s lawsuit against Samsung over design and utility patent violations.