The US FCC added California-based Digitalsystem Technology to its national security risk list due to its links to Chinese telecoms firms and ownership by a Chinese national. The company was also denied permission to provide international telecommunications services, citing potential exploitation by Chinese threat actors.
After a joke by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel drew calls from the White House for ABC to fire the comedian, the US Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday ordered an early licence review of the network’s television stations. The stand-off between US President Donald Trump’s administration and the global entertainment conglomerate is the first crisis facing Walt Disney’s new CEO Josh D’Amaro. Last Thursday, Kimmel, whose late-night television programme airs on Disney’s ABC, did a send-up of...
The US FCC is considering new measures to restrict Chinese telecom carriers, potentially barring them from operating data centers and limiting their access to US networks, marking an escalation in the tech crackdown.
