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FCC Plans to Ban Sales of New Huawei, ZTE Equipment, Report Says


The Federal Communications Commission plans to ban sales of all new telecommunications devices from Chinese tech companies Huawei and ZTE, Axios reported Thursday. The draft order, if approved by the commissioners, would seemingly also cover video devices from three other Chinese companies.

If approved, the ban would be an escalation in the US government’s sanctions against the companies and Chinese tech firms in general. In 2019, the FCC barred Huawei and ZTE from receiving any of billions of dollars in federal subsidies meant to expand broadband access in the US. In 2020, the FCC labeled the companies a risk to national security for their close ties to the Chinese military and the Chinese Communist Party. At that time, the FCC raised concerns that using equipment from the companies to build out the US 5G network could make it vulnerable to surveillance and spying.

After restrictions proposed last year, a Huawei spokesperson called the FCC’s action “misguided and unnecessarily punitive” and that “blocking the purchase of equipment, based on a ‘predictive judgement,’ related to country of origin or brand is without merit, discriminatory and will do nothing to protect the integrity of US communications networks or supply chains.”

The move is part of a deliberate shift away from Chinese telecommunications companies by the Biden administration and the Trump administration before.

Huawei, ZTE and the FCC did not immediately respond for comment.

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