FCC Rejects China Unicom Americas' Recon Petition
The FCC Public Safety Bureau on Wednesday denied a petition for reconsideration by China Unicom Americas, which asked the agency to rethink its 2022 decision revoking the company’s Section 214 authority to operate in the U.S. (see 2201270030). The order rejected each of CUA’s arguments. In December, the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court turned down a petition for review from CUA that sought to overturn the 2022 decision (see 2412240032).
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CUA’s due process objection “ignores the fact that the Secure Networks Act requires the Commission to accept determinations from any one of the enumerated sources specified in the Act and to update the Covered List accordingly,” the bureau said. “The Commission’s action to revoke CUA’s domestic and international section 214 authority in 2022 was the action that immediately terminated CUA’s legal right to offer those particular services. CUA cannot show that the subsequent inclusion on the Covered List of CUA’s services subject to revocation altered, deprived, or otherwise broadly precluded CUA from engaging in other lines of its business.”