Joe Biden
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The Biden administration has agreed to give intel up to US$8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans for chip plants in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico and Oregon.
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The White House has condemned obsolescent encryption techniques to the waste bin in a simple eight-page memo, and told US Federal agencies to move to quantum encryption.
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IBM’s plans to invest US$20 billion in New York’s Hudson Valley region over the next decade has been praised by US President Joe Biden.
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US President Joe Biden has signed a bill that will see the investment of billions of dollars into the country’s semiconductor industry.
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The US aviation industry has warned of the "catastrophic" consequences of 5G network deployments using C-Band spectrum.
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The United States Senate has voted by a large majority to confirm Jessica Rosenworcel as chair of the Federal Communications Commission for the next five years.
Forthcoming events
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President Joe Biden is due to nominate Jessica Rosenworcel, the acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to serve another term and appoint her as permanent chair.
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Former US telecoms regulator Mike O’Rielly has criticised the Biden administration for failing to confirm Jessica Rosenworcel as chair of the body.
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The Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) has announced that Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia PLC has been issued with a final licence. However, over half of the winning consortium's financing could be in doubt due to US sanctions.
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President Joe Biden is threatening to copy action by previous administrations to break up monopolies – and to undo approvals given for past mergers.
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Joe Biden has revoked his predecessor’s ban on TikTok, WeChat, Alipay and other Chinese apps, but has told the Commerce Secretary to keep investigating.
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US President Joe Biden has toughened up his predecessor’s ban on Americans investing in Chinese technology companies.
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Broadband operators in the US paid research companies to generate 18 million fake emails to the telecoms regulator and half a million fake letters to Congress, the New York attorney general is claiming.
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Huawei’s business everywhere but China has slumped following the US embargo on the company, according to today’s annual report.
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Intel is investing US$20 billion in two new production facilities in the US and will use its facilities to start making chips for other companies.
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The US has taken the next, decisive step to prevent China Unicom and two companies owned by CITIC Telecom from operating in its territory.
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US chip manufacturers had their wishes granted yesterday when President Joe Biden pledged US$37 billion in funding to boost manufacturing.
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The new US president is suspending actions started by the former Trump administration against Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat.
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US senator Amy Klobuchar is taking on Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple (GAFA) in an anti-trust reform bill that she has introduced into Congress.
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Gina Raimondo, nominated by President Joe Biden as Secretary of Commerce, appears likely to keep the Trump administration’s ban on Huawei, ZTE and other Chinese companies.
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The new US president, Joe Biden, has appointed a chief information security officer to his administration, to help defend the US government against cyber attacks.
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President Joe Biden has confirmed Jessica Rosenworcel as the person who will chair the US telecoms regulator.
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Ajit Pai left the US telecoms regulator yesterday with a final short at what he called potential Chinese espionage and threats to networks.
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As the Biden-Harris administration comes into power at noon Eastern Time today, leaders in the telecoms industry have told Capacity what their priorities should be.
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Outgoing US president Donald Trump has taken action to ban the use in the country of Chinese e-commerce services including Alipay and WeChat.
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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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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.