The challenge, which fromthecompetitionofcommunicationmarket, the competitor of ICMandinternalpressure of ICM, requires ICM to improveitsstrategicprocurementtactic.
Though not made explicit in the report, some U.S. telecom carriers allegedly were warned by U.S. policymakers that purchasing routers and other equipment for their networks from Huawei or ZTE would disqualify them from participating in the massive U.S. government procurementmarket for telecom services.
By 2011, the Obama administration was advising U.S. telecom carriers that if they had aspirations to partake of the lucrative U.S. government procurementmarket, they should not purchase routers or other equipment from Chinese companies, Huawei and ZTE, citing them as cyber security threats to the United States.