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FCC 2026 NPRM: Targeting Chinese Carriers' Data Centers & PoP Interconnections
On April 9, 2026, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) (tentatively titled Protecting Against National Security Threats in Domestic Telecommunications Service) for a vote scheduled on April 30, 2026. The FCC NPRM seeks to bar China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom from operating data centers and Points of Presence (PoPs) in the U.S., prohibit interconnection with Chinese carriers, and extend restrictions to any carrier using Huawei/ZTE equipment. This is the most significant expansion of the "Covered List" regime since 2019 — transforming voluntary guidelines under "Clean Network" policy into mandatory legal exclusion.
Proposed draft passed review, now in grace period
For a throughly compiled doc, see https://submarinenetworks.com/en/nv/insights/fcc-2026-nprm-targeting-chinese-carriers-data-centers-pop-interconnections
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Bad day for MJJ
lol
ugh, imagine paying $$ or $$$ yearly upfront, MJJ gonna be sad.
this just means more mjj will be buying EU servers. US west <> CN traffic will have to go through HK/JP.
I fail to see how this benefits anybody.
Prohibiting interconnection is just asinine.
Did the vote happen today?
Proposed is passed, it's now accepting public criticize and probably judicial review.
JP DC booming soon
This is almost certainly just because they want to intercept traffic from US to CN and they (potentially) can't if all of that is that is over Chinese networks.
I'm actually surprised that JP and Korea aren't more popular with Chinese customers (apart from maybe historical JP reasons) - connectivity from both seem pretty good to me.
there's still the GFW so it doesnt guarantee connectivity .
SK is expensive also
Connectivity from CN to JP isn't always good, Los Angeles to CN is better sometimes. All depends on the upstream and the actual regional connectivity in each province in China.
My Japan service is likely more popular (or equal) for Russians in far east than China for VPNs, probably. (THANKS PUTIN)
korean bandwidth policies are insane
So if the POPs in the US are not owned by CT CM or CU, and if there's no direct connection from US carriers to those three, then it's fine?
the 3 chinese carriers will bill more $$$$ if it's closer to mainland.
All Los Angeles and Seattle based lownend providers on suicide watch.
I hope, the chinese government responds in kind.
Yes, instructing CUCMCT to raise prices
Are they the majority of the customer base on that region?
No, but they are popular with the Chinese for lower latency stateside and many providers in these areas go a step further by having Chinese optimized network blends or market and advertise to the Chinese.
Ok, so they're going extra step to gain these Chinese customer. But, is it worth the effort? Is MJJ a loud minority?
There are colocations which have rather fair amout of revenues.
How would the Chinese government respond in kind when the US is responding in kind to China? There are zero US telecoms in China.
Thanks for your 2 rubles.
someone said that the three isp(cu/cm/ct) are heading to southeast Asia to increase transport volume
Colo for Chinese mainland corps and its branch offices?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 They could've fixed the free transit.