The Federal Communications Commission has emission It describesComprehensive investigation“About Chinese companies are already on their coverage list.” These companies include HuaweiZTE and China Telecom, which the U.S. government believes is consistent with the Chinese Communist Party. In 2022, Biden Management prohibit Selling communication equipment, video surveillance equipment and services from these companies to protect the country’s national security and ensure “untrusted communication equipment is not authorized [US] boundary. ”
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said the agency had reason to believe that certain entities on the coverage list were still operating in the U.S. because they believed the ban did not include “specific types of operations or other types.” He said the companies are “trying to end these FCC bans by conducting business in the United States on a private or “unregulated” basis.”
This investigation is based on National Security Council Carl recently established within the FCC. The main purpose of the new council is to reduce the dependence of the U.S. technology and telecommunications sector on foreign adversaries, alleviate the country’s vulnerability to cyberattacks and espionage, and ensure that the U.S. “wins strategic competition with China, rather than key technologies.”
The FCC intends to collect extensive information about entities covered by the list, including details about its ongoing business in the United States and the business of companies that may contribute to its business. It said it would “bridge all loopholes that allow distrustworthy, foreign counterparts to state-backed actors [its] rule. ”
