U.S. FCC issues final orders declaring Huawei, ZTE national security threats

The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday formally designated Chinese's Huawei Technologies Co and ZTE Corpas posing threats to U.S. national security, a declaration that bars U.S. firms from tapping an $8.3 billion government fund to purchase equipment from the companies.The U.S. telecommunications regulator voted in November 5-0 to issue the declaration and proposed requiring rural carriers to remove and replace equipment from the two Chinese companies from existing U.S. networks."We ca