U.S. bans Huawei tech near Montana nuclear missile base

Geostrategy-Direct.com U.S. companies have been banned by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from using federal funds to purchase equipment from Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE. The FCC announced the ban on Nov. 22, not long after the discovery of Huawei wireless gear near a U.S. nuclear missile base in Montana. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said that he had recently visited Malmstrom Air Force Base, home to 150 Minuteman III nuclear missiles. “Set against that destructive power is a completely serene and wide-open landscape,” Carr said. “It is just wheat fields and big sky country. Except, as it turns out, there are cell towers all around the Montana missile fields…