M&A, IP, Patents The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is extending is exclusion of Chinese firms from its telecoms industry, and is trying to ban Huawei, ZTE and other foreign companies deemed to be a national security threat from certifying wireless equipment. Last week, the FCC denied a Huawei test lab from participating in a telecoms equipment authorization program. The US is paying a heavily for its anti-China position, the FCC is asking the government for another $3 billion in funding so that operators can remove and replace equipment from Huawei and ZTE from their networks. US operator Windstream will be bought by Uniti Group, the fibre network infrastructure company that was spun out from Windstream a decade ago. Uniti will pay…