U.S. Rural Telecom Networks Need $1.8 Billion to Remove Huawei, ZTE Equipment: FCC [telecom]

WASHINGTON - (Reuters) U.S. rural telecommunications networks, which have relied on inexpensive network equipment from China's Huawei Technologies Co and ZTE Corp, have told the government that it would cost $1.837 billion to replace those switches and routers, the Federal Communications Commission said on Friday.