FCC on the prowl for Huawei and other blocked Chinese makers in America

The FCC is investigating whether Chinese manufacturers black-listed on its so-called Covered List - including Huawei - are still somehow doing business in America, either by misreading the rules or willfully ignoring them.

The US communications regulator said it has sent formal letters of inquiry and at least one subpoena to entities on that list, which includes what the FCC refers to as "CCP-aligned businesses," meaning the Chinese Communist Party, that are deemed, per the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019, to pose an "unacceptable risk" to the United States' national security.

The agency is wants to know whether some of those entities continue to operate in the US, either because they do not believe the list prohibits at least some of operations, or for some other reason.

Some or all of these entities are trying to make an end run around those FCC prohibitions

"The FCC has taken concrete ...