U.S. FCC commissioner urges tougher steps on Chinese network equipment
By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr on Tuesday known as for model new steps to verify Huawei Technologies and ZTE equipment is barred from U.S. telecommunications networks and assure no digital devices produced with pressured labor enter the United States.
The FCC ultimate yr adopted pointers requiring U.S. telecom carriers to remove and alter equipment produced by Huawei or ZTE if purchased using an $8.3 billion authorities fund, nevertheless carriers could nonetheless purchase equipment from the Chinese corporations with personal funds.
Carr, a Republican, known as for closing the “apparent loophole … It is senseless to allow that exact same equipment to get purchased and inserted into our communication network as long as federal {{dollars}} shouldn’t involved.”
Huawei talked about in an announcement that “extending the …