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Anonymous ID: a4e352 June 22, 2019, 11:41 a.m. No.6817237   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7246 >>7282

Earlier, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that barred all Huawei telecommunications equipment from the country claiming that it poses a national security risk due to alleged ties between the Chinese government and Huawei, which the latter repeatedly denied.

 

US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Geoffrey Starks has shared plans of the US government to extend a crackdown on Huawei and other Chinese telecom giants like ZTE in an interview with CNET. FCC suggests going beyond banning them from the US and offers to "rip" out their equipment that is currently used by the American carriers and replacing it with "safe" analogues.

 

It's yet unclear how exactly a "rip and replace" policy will go, namely how Huawei-using carriers will be determined and whether or not they will get a refund for the necessity to buy new equipment due to a policy shift in Washington. Starks believes carriers would be funded to help them buy replacements, but admitted that there has been no solid decision on the move or even an agreement on funds that Washington will be ready to allocate for that cause…