US extends anti-China bribe program to more operators

Mid-sized US operators can now apply for money to swap out Huawei and ZTE kit from their networks.
US Congress scraped together $1.9 billion of public money at the end of last year, to bribe operators to get rid of any Chinese gear they may have in their networks and replace it with nice, wholesome Swedish, Finnish or Korean equivalents. Somehow it seems to have excluded a lot of those operators most affected by the China purge the medium-sized rural operators.
Now, a mere seven months later, th