US FCC: To revoke China Unicom business license:
-Due to US security concerns-
Federal Communications Commission (FCC):
On January 27, it decided to revoke the US business license of China Unicom, a major state-owned telecommunications company in China.
The FCC was unanimously decided 4-0.
China’s state-owned telecommunications giant
China Unicom Communication (China Unicom)
The reason is “national security concerns” such as being abused by the Chinese Communist Party’s espionage activities.
Three major Chinese state-owned telecommunications companies:
As a result, it has decided not to allow all three major Chinese state-owned telecommunications services in the United States.
Orders China Unicom’s US subsidiary to suspend its US operations within 60 days.
China Unicom US Subsidiary:
Has been involved in international telecommunications business with the United States.
Under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party
Americans traveling abroad
Mobile phone network,
Suspicion of tracking and monitoring has surfaced.
Security concerns have been raised.
The Epoch Times
https://www.epochtimes.jp/2022/01/85670.html
US bans telecom giant China Unicom over spying concerns
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said
it had voted unanimously to revoke authorisation for the company’s American unit to operate in the US.
The firm must stop providing telecoms services in America within 60 days.
The announcement comes after larger rival China Telecom had its licence to operate in the US revoked in October.
FCC chairwoman
Jessica Rosenworcel said:There has been mounting evidence
– and with it, a growing concern –that Chinese state-owned carriers pose a real threat to the security of our telecommunications networks.
China Unicom told the BBC
its American unit
has a good record of complying with relevant US laws and regulations
and providing telecommunication services and solutions as a reliable partner of its customers in the past two decades.
China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited
will closely follow the development of the situation,it added.The Chinese Embassy in Washington
did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.– BBC News