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In March, the FCC began efforts to revoke authorization for three other state-controlled Chinese telecommunication firms, including China Unicom Americas, Pacific Networks, and its wholly-owned subsidiary ComNet, saying the companies “have failed at this stage to dispel serious concerns” about their U.S. authorizations.

The FCC on Tuesday highlighted China Telecom’s ownership by the state, which it said would give Beijing authorities opportunities to “access, store, disrupt, and/or misroute U.S. communications, which in turn allow them to engage in espionage and other harmful activities against the United States.”

China Telecom Americas, the agency said, had shown “a lack of candor, trustworthiness, and reliability that erodes the baseline level of trust” in its conduct towards the commission and other U.S. agencies.

The regulator also accused China Telecom Americas of violating two of five terms in a 2007 letter of assurance given to the U.S. government, which it needed to comply with to continue operating in the country.

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