The Federal Communications Commission has announced a new investigation into the activities of blacklisted Chinese telecommunication companies, with the FCC concerned that the banned CCP-linked groups might still be operating secretly inside the country.
The FCC said Friday that it had launched “a sweeping investigation into the ongoing U.S. operations of CCP-aligned businesses” which have been found to “pose unacceptable risks to America’s national security.”
Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, said in a Friday interview with Just the News that “over the years we have taken lots of actions against entities beholden to the CCP” and that the companies under investigation have all been deemed national security threats and have had their FCC licenses revoked. But Carr said that “some or all of these entities have nevertheless continued doing business in this country” despite losing their FCC authorizations.
The FCC chairman dubbed this “the unregulated end-run” and said that “this has long been a vision of mine — that we need to end the unregulated end-run” by Chinese telecom companies in the United States, saying Chinese companies may still be operating in a secret or unregulated way. Carr said that “if anyone is evading our rules we will obviously take enforcement action” and that if there is a “loophole” then the FCC will seek to close it.
