WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2026 – The House Select Committee on China wants Congress to expand the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to crack down on Chinese companies. The committee found three companies maintained presences in U.S. telecom networks despite having their authorizations revoked or denied by the FCC; China mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has been trying to block network and interconnection gear from Chinese companies for years, calling covered companies’ continued operation in the U.S. an “unregulated end run” around FCC rules. Still the report recommended Congress prevent U.S. telecom companies from interconnecting with covered list entities at all without case-by-case FCC approval. “The CCP does not allow U.S. telecom companies into China,” China Committee Chairman John Moolenaar, R-Mich., said in a statement.