US Aims To Ban Chinese Technology In Undersea Telecommunications Cables

Washington: The Federal Communication Commission said on Wednesday that companies are planning to prevent companies from connecting submarine submarine communication cables to the US, including Chinese technology or equipment.

FCC President Brendan Carr said in a statement, “In recent years, we have seen that the submarine cable infrastructure has been threatened by xenophobia like China.” He said. “Therefore, we take action here as well as cyber and physical threats to protect our submarine cables against xenophobia.”

The United States expressed their concerns about the role of China’s network traffic and the potential of espionage for years. The United States has extensive data security about more than 400 submarine cable network, which deals with 99% of international internet traffic.

Since 2020, US regulators have been effective in the cancellation of four cables that want to associate their supporters with Hong Kong.

Last year, FCC said that as a review of regulations on the connections that handle the online traffic of almost the whole world, he said that he was considering new rules that regulate submarine internet cables in the face of growing security concerns. National Security, including FCC, Huawei, ZTE, China Telekom and China Mobile, said that companies that are thought to be threatened to us are thinking of preventing the use of equipment or services in these submarine cable facilities from companies from companies in the FCC list.

Carr, FCC’nin “protect our submarine cables against the ownership of xenophobia, as well as access, as well as cyber and physical threats,” he said.

The FCC will also ask for a comment on additional measures to protect the safety of submarine cable against xenophobia.

Two fiber optic submarines in the Baltic Sea cut off telecommunication cables caused possible sabotage to investigate.

In 2023, Taiwan accused two Chinese ships of cutting only two cables supporting internet access on Matsu Islands, and the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea can be responsible for the cutting of three cables providing internet service to Europe and Asia.