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Hikvision Calls Proposed FCC Clamp Down 'Unjustified and Unlawful'

Hikvision USA said an FCC proposal to further clamp down on gear from mostly Chinese companies, preventing the sale of yet-to-be authorized equipment in the U.S. (see 2210130076), would be “unprecedented, unjustified and unlawful.” The China-based company said there's no…

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justification for banning the gear it sells in the U.S. “Even when this equipment is connected to a public telecommunications or broadband network, the equipment itself generally operates on private networks, and only traverses public networks when instructed to do so by end users,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 21-232: “This video surveillance equipment simply has nothing to do with the operation, safety, and security of telecommunications and broadband networks, and nothing in the record establishes that this peripheral end user equipment poses any threat to those public telecommunications and broadband networks, or to the end users who purchased this equipment.”