What would it cost to replace US telecoms' Chinese gear?

The nation’s top oversight office is considering penning a study to assess the cost of administering a far-reaching operation to rip out and replace swaths of at-risk or compromised telecommunications equipment owned by small communications providers around the country, according to a senior U.S. official.The deliberations, which have not been previously reported, are fueled by an ongoing Chinese espionage intrusion into U.S. and allied telecommunications networks by Salt Typhoon, a hackin