Chinese telecom firms kept footholds in US networks despite federal crackdowns, House probe finds
Years after federal regulators invoked national security grounds to push three Chinese state-owned telecommunications providers out of the American market, the companies never fully left, a new House probe has found.
China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom retained equipment, data-center space and connections to other networks in the United States after the Federal Communications Commission denied or revoked their authority to provide certain telecommunications services, according to a nearly 50-page bipartisan House China Committee investigation planned for release Tuesday and first seen by Nextgov/FCW.
From 2019 to 2022, the FCC denied China Mobile USA’s application to provide international service and revoked authorizations held by China Telecom Americas and China Unicom Americas. But those actions did not require the companies to remove equipment, leave data centers or sever private network links, and the carriers continued offering enterprise networking, internet transit and other services, the panel found.
The committee argues...
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