China Telecom is asking a US appeals court to block regulatory moves designed to ban it from operating in the country on national security grounds. The FCC issued an order in late October demanding that the telco giant’s American business cease its operations at the start of 2022 in a bid to “safeguard the nation’s telecommunications infrastructure from potential security threats.” It claimed that the firm’s ownership and control by Beijing raised major security and law enforcement concerns, by potentially enabling the Chinese government to “access, store, disrupt and/or misroute US communications, which in turn allow them to engage in espionage and other harmful activities against the United States.” The order added:

Read full article on Infosecurity