US President Biden signs law to ban Huawei and ZTE from receiving FCC licences [telecom]

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Sat, Nov 13, 2021 8:43 PM

The Secure Equipment Act of 2021 received bipartisan support prior to it being signed by Biden.

By Campbell Kwan

US President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law bipartisan legislation that will ban companies like Huawei and ZTE from getting approval for network equipment licences in the US.

The legislation, Secure Equipment Act of 2021, will require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt new rules that clarify it will no longer review or approve any authorisation applications for networking equipment that pose national security threats.

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Sun, Nov 14, 2021 6:39 AM

Am Sat, 13 Nov 2021 20:43:43 +0000 (UTC) schrieb Moderator snipped-for-privacy@remove-this.remove-this.telecom-digest.org>:

That's interesting. They don't want Huawei in that position, but Cisco and Sony are fine (maybe because these are American companies that can [be controlled by] their government).

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Mon, Nov 15, 2021 12:20 AM

The PRC government implements a policy of military-industrial fusion, wherein "national champion" industrial firms provide support for the military and in return the government's external spy agencies perform industrial espionage to support those firms. The US intelligence establishment believes that this "support" on the part of telecommunications companies includes secret remote access and/or data exfiltration functions that can be invoked by the PRC intelligence apparatus.

(It's perhaps worth noting here that the Chinese *state* does not have a military. The People's Liberation Army is the military department of the Chinese Communist Party, not the state, and to the extent these are hard to distinguish it is because China is a one-party state. But the PLA is answerable to Party leadership and not the government, to the extent these differ.)

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