Cybersecurity Policy Report, Shenzhen STS Testing Lab Proposes FCC Compliance Plan, (Aug 18, 2026)
Organizations Mentioned:U.S. Department of Commerce
By Lynn Stanton
Shenzhen STS Test Services has proposed that instead of the FCC’s withdrawing recognition from it as an accredited test laboratory, it should instead impose a compliance plan and “probationary period” to resolve the agency’s concerns.
Last month, in an order in ET docket 26-111 instituting a proceeding to withdraw recognition from SGS-CSTC Standards Technical Services Co. Ltd. Shenzhen Branch as an accredited test laboratory, OET said the company was “subject to 15% ownership by China Standard Science & Technology Group Company Limited, which itself is wholly-owned by the China National Institute of Standardization. The U.S. Department of Commerce, based on numerous Executive Branch sources, has determined that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a foreign adversary” (CPR, July 22), FCC, Order Instituting Proceeding to Withdraw Recognition as an Accredited Test Laboratory, Dkt. 26-111 (July 20, 2026).
A release from the Chairman’s office at that time said OET “discovered that 40 separate FCC IDs … had apparently relied on identical test reports prepared by Shenzhen STS Test Services, often for wholly different products, such as a PC and wireless earbuds. When confronted, Shenzhen STS Test Services conceded that it had submitted falsified reports, which it blamed on, among other factors, ‘engineers’ negligence … as well as the negligence of the relevant report editors/reviewers.’”
In a response filed by STS yesterday, it said, “At the outset, it is important to be clear that testing was actually performed for every product identified in the Order and the original measured data exists in STS's laboratory records.”
STS added that “[a]t no time was any test result fabricated or falsified. Also, no device was provided with a ‘passing’ report when actual testing results showed the device did not meet the Commission’s technical requirements.”
STS said the discrepancies in its test reports were the result of “report-assembly errors, not fabrication.”
The filing does not address the issue of ownership by the Chinese government.
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