Three Chinese state-owned telecommunications carriers kept equipment, data center cages, and live network connections across the United States years after federal regulators denied or revoked their authority to provide certain services, a bipartisan House investigation found.
China Telecom Americas, China Unicom Americas, and China Mobile International (USA) remained operationally tied to parent companies in China and Hong Kong through shared network systems, technical support, and personnel arrangements, according to the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party’s “Stranger Pings” report, released Aug. 4.
China Unicom Americas also embedded a mandatory acceptable use policy in intellectual property (IP) transit agreements with U.S. companies, according to the report. The reproduced policy prohibited political news violating Chinese laws, information violating Chinese state security laws, and content the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claimed threatened “social order and social stability.”…
Chinese State-Owned Carriers Retained US Infrastructure After FCC Actions: House Report
