{"id":49523,"date":"2026-10-30T11:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49523"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:08:19","slug":"us-plans-to-ban-chinese-telecom-firms-from-direct-access-to-us-phone-numbers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-plans-to-ban-chinese-telecom-firms-from-direct-access-to-us-phone-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"US plans to ban Chinese telecom firms from direct access to US phone numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The United States (US) plans to soon ban Chinese telecom firms from direct access \u200cto US phone numbers on national security grounds, a measure designed to prevent scam-related robocalls.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The US Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday that it will vote on November 19 on a proposal to ban China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom \u200band other Internet Protocol address-enabled service providers from direct access.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">For telecom firms providing Voice over Internet Protocol, technology that \u200bconverts voice into digital data and transmits it over broadband connections, direct access is \u2060a much cheaper option and makes it easier to offer advanced features.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;With this decision, will \u200bbe strengthening our first line of defense against bad actors and illegal robocallers,&#8221; FCC Chair Brendan Carr said in \u200ba statement.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">China&#8217;s foreign ministry said on Friday that it firmly opposes the likely US ban and accused Washington of overstretching the concept of national security and abusing state power to suppress Chinese enterprises.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;China will take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard its own \u200blegitimate rights and interests,&#8221; Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told a daily press conference.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21689,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-49523","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"US plans to ban Chinese telecom firms from direct access \u200c","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49525,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49523\/revisions\/49525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}