“The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 5-0 Friday to designate China’s Huawei and ZTE as national security risks, barring their U.S. rural carrier customers from tapping an $8.5 billion government fund to purchase equipment or services,” David Shepardson reports for Reuters:
The U.S. telecommunications regulator also voted to propose requiring those carriers to remove and replace equipment from Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp from existing networks.
Huawei called the order “unlawful” and asked the FCC “to rethink its profoundly mistaken order.” It argued the FCC’s decision was based “on nothing more than irrational speculation and innuendo.”
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai first proposed in March 2018 to bar companies that posed a national security risk from receiving funds from the FCC’s Universal Service Fund, but did not name Huawei or ZTE. The fund provides subsidies to provide service in rural or hard-to-reach areas, and to libraries and schools.
MacDailyNews Take: Bipartisan.
The fund provides subsidies to provide service in rural or hard-to-reach areas, and to libraries and schools.
You mean kinda like AT&T used to do before the government forced them to break up? Huh.
Wish Canada would smarten up and do the same. Allow them access to the 5G infrastructure….no.
China wants to rule the world and they will do it by any means. “The end justifies the means,” is being and will be perfectly illustrated with China’s actions to accomplish the goal.
China having anything to do with 5G physically, or digitally, within our borders is absolutely insane.
Glad to see it was a 5-0 vote. It is a great step, with many of a similar nature ahead…which means a huge challenge remains to maintain security and safety.
The military industrial complex is pleased. Remove existing Huawei networks and replace with much more expensive Nokia & Ericsson versions. The fact that there are no U.S. produced alternatives reveals a lot about this country’s priorities. Most americans still don’t know that NASA has been purchasing Russian made rocket engines for more than a decade. Its sad!
But hey, we can still blow up the world a million times more than anyone else. And as of November, our debt is only $23,051,248,112,073