Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Lawmakers: Fund Tech to Thwart Telco Spies

Lawmakers want Biden to fund technology they say could secure American telecommunications companies from spies.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging President Biden to include $3 billion in funding for technology it says would reduce American reliance on Chinese telecommunications equipment that could provide a back door for spying.

The money would go to funds established by Congress last year to encourage more American companies to switch over to Open Radio Access Network (OpenRAN) technology. The technology is essentially the software version of the hardware components needed to connect phones within 5G networks. more