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Friday, July 6, 2018

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Trump Has Blocked the World's Biggest Mobile Network Operator From the U.S. on National Security Grounds

Chinese employees serve customers at a branch of China Mobile in Nanjing city, east China's Jiangsu province.The world’s biggest mobile network operator, China Mobile, probably won’t get to enter the U.S. market after the Trump administration moved to block it on national security grounds.
China Mobile (CHL, +1.31%) is a state-owned enterprise with almost 900 million subscribers, and there is currently no shortage of distrust in the U.S. regarding Chinese companies with ties to the state, particularly in the telecommunications arena. American lawmakers have, for example, described the phone-makers Huawei and ZTE (ZTCOY, +3.53%) as “a severe national security threat.”
So it goes with China Mobile. Some seven years after the company asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a license to carry voice traffic in and out of the U.S.—something that would require connecting U.S. telecoms networks to China Mobile’s network—the White House effectively closed off the possibility with a negative recommendation.

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