FCC declares Huawei and ZTE as 'national security threats,' nothing changes

Carriers were already banned from using grant money to buy their equipment

In the past few years, the FCC has made overtures against Huawei and ZTE, characterizing them as national security threats. Well, now it's official: the commission has passed an order officially declaring the two Chinese tech giants as national security threats to the United States.

The agency framed the companies as agents of the Chinese government thanks to their close political ties, compulsion to cooperate with covert espionage operations under law, vulnerabilities in their networking equipment that could allow data to be directed to Beijing, and their transgressions on U.S.

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