United States of America: Introduced Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019

On 8 November 2019, the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act is introduced in Congress. The Act prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from subsidizing the acquisition or maintenance of telecommunications equipment or services from untrusted suppliers, creates a program to reimburse telecommunications providers with fewer than two million customers that will remove equipment that poses a national security risk from their networks to replace it with equipment from trusted suppliers, and establishes an information sharing program for telecommunications providers (particularly small and rural operators) to obtain information regarding potential security risks and vulnerabilities to their networks.