Ο US President Joe Biden, signed new legislation on Thursday to prevent new equipment licenses from U.S. regulators from companies such as Huawei Technologies Co or ZTE Corp, which are considered as threats to the security of the country.
Ο new law on safe equipment, is essentially the last effort of their government USA to exclude Chinese telecommunications and technology companies, and approved unanimously by the US Senate on October 28 and by US House of Representatives with votes 420-4.
This signature for the new legislation,, comes a few days before the Biden and the Chinese leader Xi Jinping hold a "meeting" in a virtual summit. Reuters reported that this meeting is expected to take place on next monday, amid tensions over trade, human rights and military activities.
The new law requires from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) no longer review or approve any authorization request for equipment that poses a risk to national security.
The FCC Commissioner, Brendan Carr, said the commission has already approved more than 3.000 applications for Huawei since 2018. The law “will help ensure that unsecured telecommunications equipment from companies such as Huawei and ZTE can no longer be introduced into America's communications networks", says o Carr.
In March, FCC identified five Chinese companies as national security threats under a 2019 law aimed at protecting U.S. communications networks.
The branded companies included in the black list are: h Huawei and ZTE, As well as Hytera Communications CorpThe Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co and Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co.
Last month, the FCC also voted in favor of revoking the subsidiary license of its subsidiary China Telecom USA in the United States, citing national security concerns.
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