The Federal Communications Commission recently determined that security products from Kaspersky posed an unacceptable risk to US national security and added the company to a covered list of other firms not eligible for FCC funds. Kaspersky becomes the first security company and first Russian entity to be added to the US security threat list. Companies that appear on the list are ineligible to receive any of the $8 billion available annually under the FCC’s Universal Service Fund. The fund supports telecom services in rural areas or is for low-income consumers or entities like schools, libraries, and hospitals. The move adds Kaspersky to the same covered list that Huawei and ZTE landed on in 2021.
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