ZTE will have to re-brand its smartphone business to be allowed to enter US market

The US government gave ZTE green light to restart its business on US soil and also use US-made technologies but only if the Chinese vendor checks off a long list of obligations. The most impactful one is the required split and re-branding of ZTE. The firm needs to drop "ZTE" from its smartphone branding and split from its network infrastructure. The reason for this is that authorities can't say for sure that their network business isn't a threat to security while their smartphones use US-based technologies such as Qualcomm's chipsets and are safe to use. For the very same reason the...