Telecom coalition urges House, Senate appropriators to provide more funding for Huawei rip-and-replace program

A coalition of communications groups is asking the House and Senate Appropriations committees to give the Federal Communications Commission additional funds to meet industry needs under the FCC’s program to rip and replace equipment from Huawei and ZTE.

Congress appropriated $1.9 billion in 2020 to fund the FCC’s rip-and-replace program based on data collected by the FCC at the time. The filing window for telecoms to submit applications closed in January and the FCC subsequently announced that the total...