The US rip-and-replace scheme is a shambles

Years after a passing a law demanding the removal of all Chinese-made kit from US telecoms networks, the resulting scheme is still struggling to get going.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel wrote to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to let them know that the cost of reimbursing those smaller US operators that still have Huawei or ZTE kit in their networks will be $5 billion. That is more than double the amount the US tax payer has originally been asked to shell out f