Huawei Slams FCC Efforts to Bar It From Federal Communications Program
The Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to block the Chinese company Huawei from U.S. telecom contracts and supply chains is unconstitutional, misguided, “arbitrary and capricious,” Huawei said in comments posted Monday.
The Chinese telecom giant devoted more than 100 pages to savaging the FCC proposal, which would deny money from the commission’s Universal Service Fund to companies that purchase equipment or services from companies that are deemed threats to national security.
That list would include Huawei and ZTE, another Chinese telecom. U.S. intelligence officials fear the companies could be used by Chinese government hackers to spy on Americans or launch destructive cyberattacks. The $8.5 billion Universal Service Fund provides money to lower the cost of telephone and internet service in high-cost areas and to expand services in rural and low-income areas.
