Communication and monitoring equipment for five plants will no longer receive a marketing authorization.
The United States now has a decade-long tradition of suing Chinese telecom equipment on national security grounds, though its use has only been banned or discouraged in telecommunications companies’ networks so far. To this day, the evidence on which to trust products has not been made public by the US government.
Now, the campaign against Chinese manufacturers has unexpectedly entered a new phase, which is the FCC unwilling To grant marketing authorization for devices designed for communications and video surveillance by Huawei, ZTE, Hytera Communications, Hikvision and Dahua.
Their products, which have been licensed so far, can still be marketed and imported and don’t have to be taken off store shelves.
The current ban affects both commercial and residential products, so new smartphones or corporate Wi-Fi routers, among other things, cannot obtain the official approval necessary for distribution in the USA. You can’t play tricks with white labeling either, and other companies can’t import products of recognized manufacturers into the country under their own brand names.
If you want to read more interesting tech news, follow the Origo Techbase Facebook page, click here!
