Earlier this week, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had unanimously voted to advance its proposed ban on approvals for networking equipment from US telecommunications carriers that are made by Huawei and ZTE.
According to a Reuters report, the US FCC aims to push its proposed bans on the two Chinese telecommunications giants that are considered to be national security threats. The new rules have already won initial approval and would allow FCC to revoke the authorizations issued to the Chinese companies for their equipment. A Huawei spokesperson labeled this FCC revision “misguided and unnecessarily punitive.”
Furthermore, the Acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel added that new measures will “exclude untrustworthy equipment from our communications networks… We have left open opportunities for (Huawei and other Chinese equipment) use in the United States through our equipment authorization process. So here we propose to close that door.” Since 2018, the FCC has approved more than 3,000 applications from Huawei, as per FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr.
Although, the new regulations would ban all future authorizations for communications equipment that can potentially be a risk to the national security of the nation. Back in March 2021, the FCC had designated five Chinese firms as a security threat under a 2019 law that aims to protect US communications networks. Notably, Government officials have praised the FCC’s actions stating that the FCC has voted “to put national security first by keeping compromised Chinese equipment out of US telecommunications networks.”
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