ZTE remains a threat, according to the US

The Federal Telecommunications Commission of the United States (FCC) rejected the request of the Chinese company ZTE that the agency reconsider the status of the company as a threat to national security.

At the end of June, the FCC designated Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE as “threats to national security“, given that both are “broadly subject to Chinese law that requires them to cooperate with the country’s intelligence services.”

This designation means that United States telecommunications companies may not use public funds to “purchase, obtain, maintain, improve, modify, or otherwise support equipment or services produced or provided” by these two companies.

For this reason, ZTE asked the agency to reconsider its designation, something that the FCC now denied because the Chinese company has not questioned that “the region’s law imposes legal and extra-legal controls on Chinese and foreign citizens, companies and organizations that operate in China to provide access, cooperation and support for government intelligence gathering activities.“

Likewise, the US body stated in a document that it rejected the request of the Chinese company because it is based on arguments that have already been considered, and that it does not show that the agency made any mistake in its analysis.

K. Tovar

Source: NDTV