FCC Pledges Quick Action on Obtaining Rip-and-Replace Funding
The FCC “will take quick steps” to secure the additional funding that Congress authorized in the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law this week (see 2412240036), said a Thursday notice. The NDAA authorizes the…
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commission to borrow as much as $3.08 billion from the Treasury Department to fully fund the program, said the notice from the Wireline Bureau and Office of Managing Director. While the commission secures funding, “recipients can and should continue their work to remove, replace, and dispose of covered communications equipment and services,” the agency said: “The Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act, as implemented through the Commission’s rules, requires recipients to remove, replace, and dispose of all Huawei and/or ZTE communications equipment and services that were in their networks as of the date of the submission of the application even if the recipient received a prorated allocation.”