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The US Federal Communications Commission announced on Tuesday its final decision to classify Huawei and ZTE as National Security Threats. The official designation came from the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. It means the commission’s $8.3 billion a year universal service fund can’t be used to purchase or maintain equipment from the two Chinese tech giants, in a bid to provide security protection for US communications networks.
The decision comes after the FCC in November 2019 adopted a ban on the use of this fund for Huawei and ZTE — Tuesday’s order by the bureau is a final designation taking into account all evidence from the US government.
“Based on the overwhelming weight of evidence, the Bureau has designated Huawei and ZTE as
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