US FCC to vote to tighten restrictions on Chinese telecom equipment
By David Shepardson
The Washington (Reuters) -Federal Communication Commission will be regarded as national security risks, the last of a series of actions aimed at Beijing to squeeze restrictions on telecommunication equipment made by Chinese companies.
Huawei Technologies, ZTE, Hangzhou Hikvision, China Mobile and China Telecom, including the previously called the US Telekom Regulator, FCC, which prevents the authorization of the FCC for import or sales from these companies for the “closed list” e.
FCC President Brendan Carr said that on October 28, the agency will vote for prohibiting the authorization of devices containing components containing component parts in the covered list and prohibiting the previously authorized closed list equipment.
Carr said in a statement, “We will also improve the process further and how to keep the bad equipment away from our networks will reveal a series of questions.” He said.
In March, FCC, Huawei, ZTE and Hytera Communications, Dahua Technology Company, Pacifica Networks/Comnet/Comnet and China Unicom (America), including nine Chinese companies, including the research said.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not comment immediately.
The FCC previously prevented some Chinese companies from providing telecommunications services in the USA by specifying national security concerns.
Carr said that there was a reason to believe that some or all of the Chinese companies on the list of the FCC have been trying to put an end around these FCC bans by continuing to do a special or ‘unrelated’ basis in the United States.
Last month, the FCC referred to the US national security concerns and began to withdraw the recognition from the seven test laboratories owned or controlled by the Chinese government.
In May, the US Telekom Agency voted to conclude the rules that block such laboratories from testing electronic devices such as smartphones, cameras and computers to be used in the USA.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Lincoln Feast)
