FiberHome Telecommunication Technologies Co., Ltd. () is a major

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and

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equipment provider in the

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. Its headquarters is in

Hongshan District, Wuhan Hongshan District () forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. The district is named for Mount Hong, located near East Lake. It is the most pop ...

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province, China. Founded in 1999, Fiberhome Networks was one of the 8 affiliated companies and highly specializing on IP

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under the management of Fiberhome Company. In May 2020, the

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said it was adding Fiberhome to its

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of organizations subject to

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governing exports and other transactions. The Commerce Department said Fiberhome was “complicit” in alleged

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involving Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in northwest China. U.S. companies will have to obtain special, hard-to-get licenses to do business with Fiberhome.

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