Huawei, ZTE Face Scrutiny From U.S. House Intelligence Panel

Chinese phone-equipment makers Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. are the focus of a U.S. House intelligence committee investigation into whether the companies’ expansion in the U.S. poses a security threat.

The probe will focus on whether the companies’ presence provides “the Chinese government an opportunity for greater foreign espionage” and imperils the U.S. telecommunications infrastructure, Representatives Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Dutch Ruppersberger, the panel’s top Democrat, said in a news release yesterday.