FCC Blocks China Mobile From Operating in US Over National Security Concerns (axios.com) 41
The FCC has voted unanimously to deny China Mobile's application to provide telecommunications services in the U.S. due to concerns about national security and law enforcement risks. From a report: China Mobile's application, submitted in 2011, requested permission to provide telecom services in the U.S., including connecting calls between the U.S. and the vast majority of countries, which would involve interconnecting with American internet networks. FCC officials say China Mobile USA is indirectly and ultimately owned and controlled by the Chinese government. It's a subsidiary of global telecom giant China Mobile Limited. U.S. officials saw risks that China Mobile would comply with government espionage requests or that information about U.S. communications networks and users could be exploited. There were also concerns that Chinese government officials could use its access to U.S. networks to block or interfere with communications traffic should an issue arise between the two countries.
Only the NSA (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry China, only the NSA is allowed to illegally spy domestically and internationally on all our citizens.
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China mobile phones were inspected and approved for distribution by the FTC sometime ago, although it's merely an endorsement and does not hold the full weight of law.
What does the FTC (Federal Trade Commission?) have to do with approving China's mobile phones? And if you mean FCC (Federal Communications Commission) they DO have the full weight of law to prevent the retail sale of *any* device that radiates RF (intentional or not) within the USA and it's territories, plus it regulates the phone system and could likely prevent a specific phone's sale in that capacity too.
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and interfere in elections, supports despots and genocidal governments, ferment revolutions and arm rebels, wage war against those that didn't attack it.
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news for you, basement dweller, the CCCP fell in 1991.
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Yea #OrangeManBad! #ForeignFirstLadyBad!
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What happens when a Communist nation can track every US base/camp/fort/port "worker" every shift change?
To see who the CIA is accepting with language skills this year?
Who in the CIA is working in Macau again?
Match a few decades of US staff working at US sites with that "database" the US did not keep encrypted and safe?
The option exists for the NSA to say no to all smartphone use.
Working for the NSA/CIA/5 eyes then becomes like g
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Hack it, ijiot, they would just buy it from Google or Facebook why hack it. You get bet all US hardware and software will now face more bans in China and of course in other countries. Well, YAY for Linux and sucks for M$ Windows because they are now totally in the cross hairs.
Not that there is anything wrong with a country regulating that only electronic equipment and software sourced in country can be used in essential digital infrastructure for that reason I would ban US infested spyware of all descriptio
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You sound jealous.
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The US is currently pushing China to allow US financial services and telcos to operate in China. This isn't going to help them in their negotiations.
Mr. Pai must protect his future job (Score:2)
...with one of the telecoms.