The arm of US sanctions against ZTE and Huawei has failed to reach far into developing economies of the Far East, Africa and Latin America, many of which remain open to competition from all the major mobile equipment makers. Operators in such countries are attracted by pricing and technology differentiators from ZTE and Huawei, but they can also exploit a higher level of competition than in markets where the two Chinese vendors are effectively banned. The need for a wide choice of suppliers means that Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung have also been doing well in many developing markets over the past few years. As a result, the global mobile market now falls into three broad zones of competition: …