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The FCC plans to ban Chinese technology in undersea cables
The FCC wants to ban Chinese equipment in undersea cables and Chinese companies from operating cables that connect to the US.
Banning, or at least severely limiting the influence of Chinese companies is an attempt to benefit American cable providers while hurting the country's perceived enemies. Trump signed a law that required carriers to"rip and replace" old Huawei and ZTE mobile infrastructure, and the FCC provisioned funding to make it happen. Besides being consistent with past FCC actions, they could be justified as a way of securing American infrastructure following the widespread"Salt Typhoon" hack the affected US carriers and other companies last year.
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