US House to vote to provide $3 billion to remove Chinese telecoms equipment

FILE - A technician stands at the entrance to a Huawei 5G data server center in Guangzhou, in southern China's Guangdong province on Sept. 26, 2021.

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote next week on an annual defense bill that includes just over $3 billion for U.S. telecom companies to remove equipment made by Chinese telecoms firms Huawei and ZTE 000063.SZ from American wireless networks to address security risks.