Swordsmyth
07-02-2018, 07:11 PM
And now according to Bloomberg, on Monday Trump is going back to the Huawei/ZTE playbook, after on the Trump administration moved against letting another Chinese telecom giant, China Mobile, enter the U.S. telecommunications market, saying the state-owned enterprise would pose national security risks.
According to a filing distributed on Monday by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (a branch of the Commerce Department), the Federal Communications Commission should deny China Mobile’s application, submitted in 2011. China Mobile said it wanted to offer international voice traffic between the U.S. and foreign countries, but didn’t intend to offer mobile service within the U.S., according to the NTIA filing.
Like in the case of ZTE and Huawei, the NTIA filing said that the US intelligence community and other officials found that China Mobile’s application “would pose unacceptable national security and law enforcement risks."
China Mobile, owned by China Mobile Communications Corp., “is wholly owned by a sovereign state, the People’s Republic of China,” the agency said in the filing.
Of course, China Mobile is also something else: it was the world’s largest mobile phone operator in 2011, with more than 649 million subscribers, according to filing (and is probably that 7 years later).
More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-02/trump-block-another-chinese-telecom-giant-entering-us
According to a filing distributed on Monday by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (a branch of the Commerce Department), the Federal Communications Commission should deny China Mobile’s application, submitted in 2011. China Mobile said it wanted to offer international voice traffic between the U.S. and foreign countries, but didn’t intend to offer mobile service within the U.S., according to the NTIA filing.
Like in the case of ZTE and Huawei, the NTIA filing said that the US intelligence community and other officials found that China Mobile’s application “would pose unacceptable national security and law enforcement risks."
China Mobile, owned by China Mobile Communications Corp., “is wholly owned by a sovereign state, the People’s Republic of China,” the agency said in the filing.
Of course, China Mobile is also something else: it was the world’s largest mobile phone operator in 2011, with more than 649 million subscribers, according to filing (and is probably that 7 years later).
More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-02/trump-block-another-chinese-telecom-giant-entering-us