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President-Elect Donald Trump has turned to Brendan Carr to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). -
Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of SpaceX and Starlink, Tesla, X and xAI will have a role in the upcoming second Trump administration, having been appointed to lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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The Biden administration is pressing on with handing out subsidies to semiconductor manufacturers despite President-Elect Donald Trump’s threats to scrap the CHIPS Act.
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Donald J. Trump has secured a returned to the White House to become the 47th US President.
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We're just days away from yet another pivotal US election, with polls showing candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in an extraordinarily tight race.
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Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump has threatened to repeal the CHIPS and Science Act and replace it with tariffs.
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The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has halted its plan to delist the shares of China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom.
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Ajit Pai is to leave the US telecoms and media regulator, which he has chaired since 2017, on the day Joe Biden replaces Donald Trump as president.
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US president-elect Joe Biden has appointed Mignon Clyburn, a former acting chair of the US regulator, to his telecoms transition team.
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Losing the US election hasn’t stopped Donald Trump from taking further shots at China in recent days.
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Broadband association US Telecom has written to President-elect Joe Biden setting out five connectivity-related priorities for his first 100 days as POTUS.
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Former FCC chairman William Kennard is to become the next chairman of AT&T, taking office in January just before Joe Biden becomes 46th US president.
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President Donald Trump has blocked the nomination of a telecoms regulator who disagreed with him over freedom of speech.
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American policy towards Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE has been shaped by politics and by the US president’s desire to make “personal gestures” to his Chinese counterpart, according to a new book.
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The Group Of Seven – the international intergovernmental organisation that counts Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and US as members – has turned its attention to 5G in the hope that an extended membership can create a rival to China’s Huawei.
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The bad news continued for Huawei this week as CFO Meng Wanzhou lost the first bid to block her extradition to the US on charges of bank fraud. She is also accused of misleading HSBC about a Huawei Technologies Co Ltd-owned company’s dealings with Iran.
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The fortunes of Chinese start-ups looking to list on US stock exchanges could be about to sour as the Senate and Nasdaq both introduced new rules over the last 48 hours.
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US government action against Huawei threatens to undermine the entire telecoms industry worldwide, the company said this morning.
