FCC bars China Mobile from US over spy threats

Published May 9, 2019 6:44pm ET



A Chinese telecommunications firm is being barred from the United States due to suspicions that such companies are platforms for the communist regime’s spy services.

“Granting China Mobile’s application would not be in the public interest,” Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said Thursday after FCC commissioners voted unanimously to reject the application.

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