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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has upheld its designation of Chinese telecom company Huawei as a national security threat, rejecting the firm’s appeal of the ruling.
The FCC also voted to start proceedings that could revoke China Telecom s permission to provide communications services within the U.S.
During Thursday s meeting, FCC commissioners reaffirmed an order from July that designated Huawei and ZTE, which are both based in China, as threats to U.S. national security because they could exploit vulnerabilities in America s telecom networks to spy on communications on behalf of the Chinese government (see:
In November, FCC commissioners denied a similar appeal by ZTE.
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