Posted on 05/09/2019 10:06:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The top U.S. communications regulator urged the rejection of China Mobile Ltd.’s application to provide telecommunications services in the American market, opening another front in the trade fight between the world’s biggest economies.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said Wednesday he was scheduling a vote May 9 on a measure to deny the application of China Mobile USA, described as a Delaware-registered subsidiary that is indirectly controlled by the Chinese government, on national security grounds.
“We comply with all applicable laws in the course of operations and have not engaged in any behavior that causes ‘substantial and serious national security and law enforcement risks,”’ China Mobile said by email Thursday. “We will wait for the official application result and may take follow up actions.”
Parent company China Mobile is the world’s largest mobile phone operator by customers, with about 899 million subscribers. China Mobile is seeking approval to be listed as a “common carrier” that would enable it to carry international voice traffic between the U.S. and foreign countries, and to connect that traffic with the U.S. telecommunications network. China Mobile told the agency it wouldn’t provide domestic telephone or mobile services in the U.S.
“Safeguarding our communications networks is critical to our national security,” Pai said in an emailed statement. “After reviewing the evidence in this proceeding, including the input provided by other federal agencies, it is clear that China Mobile’s application to provide telecommunications services in our country raises substantial and serious national security and law enforcement risks.”
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Dang, you’d think they would use a more opaque name, like “Lenovo” or something.
The battle for 5G has now begun!
The goal was to fracture the USA market with a legal battle between Intel, Apple and Qualcomm and China would just march in.
That plan failed.
Watch what Samsung does now.
I wouldn't be surprised that it is happening now through our 'smart TV's' and our voice generated commands to our cable providers.
Why does anyone think that you must depress the microphone button on your TV remote for it to be able to transmit {and record} voices in your house.
How does alexa get 'accidentally' activated and then sends confidential information to big mother?
RE: They will load every device with ‘intel bugs’ so that every mobile phone will be like ‘alexa’ phoning home to mother china.
But but but... Huawei has assured the west that they are not doing any such things.
RE: Dang, you’d think they would use a more opaque name, like “Lenovo” or something.
Lenovo used to be IBM. If they want to be even more opaque, they could have retained the name, IBM :)
Wrong. the purchased Thinkpad from IBM.
OK, let’s be more specific -— Lenovo was founded in Beijing in November 1984 as Legend and was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1988. Lenovo acquired IBM’s personal computer business in 2005 and agreed to acquire its Intel-based server business later.
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