The New York Times reported last week that the Federal Communications Commission will trust a foreign company, Ericsson, to route billions of U.S. cellphone calls and text messages. A New Jersey subsidiary of Ericsson, Telcordia, presented the lowest bid, to manage the system that American company Neustar has since the 1990s. The Times reports that several months ago Telcordia used a small number of foreign nationals, including one Chinese citizen, for computer coding after Telcordia was given preliminary approval for the job. But only “vetted U.S. citizens” were allowed to work on the project, so the FCC made the company discard the work and start over. The paper points out that, "In 2006... a $6.8 billion deal that would have allowed a company in the United Arab Emirates to manage six American port terminals set off outrage in Congress and was eventually killed." Now, critics says, the FCC is putting communications infrastructure into foreign hands.