China Telecom pleads with US regulator to hold on to licenseChina Telecom Corp’s US unit urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to revoke the company’s nearly two-decade old authorization to provide international telecommunications services to and from the United States. The filing late Monday came after the U.S. Justice Department and other agencies in April asked the FCC to revoke the authorization of China Telecom (Americas), the U.S. subsidiary of a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-owned telecommunications company, citing national security concerns. The company, which obtained its license to operate in the U.S. in 2001, has offices in 31 countries across the continents and offers a variety of telecommunications services to both businesses and individual consumers. With FCC approvals, it is authorized to provide communications, data, television and business services in the U.S. as a facilities-based common carrier. But the firm only offers very limited business to consumer (B2C) services to individual customers mostly comprised of Chinese nationals travelling to the U.S.-Reuters/CGTN

Source: The Standard June 09, 2020 03:02 UTC