US FCC to vote to tighten restrictions on Chinese equipment

WASHINGTON: The Federal Communications Commission will vote this month to tighten restrictions on equipment made by Chinese companies deemed national security risks, the latest in a series of U.S. actions targeting Beijing.

The U.S. telecom regulator previously named companies including Huawei Technologies, ZTE, Hangzhou Hikvision, China Mobile and China Telecom to the so-called “Covered List,” which bars the FCC from authorizing for import or sale new equipment from those companies.