From PC World: The first cracks in the government’s router ban have appeared: many of Netgear’s routers are now exempted from the FCC’s rule banning the sale of foreign-made routers, and Adtran can ship its service routers, too.
Netgear announced that it had earned a conditional approval from the FCC on Tuesday, and the FCC noted it in an update (PDF) to its Covered List as well.
The Federal Communications Commission said in March that it would effectively ban new consumer routers from being imported into the U.S. based on concerns that they pose “unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States and to the safety and security of U.S. persons.” The decision essentially capped off development of new consumer routers: Without approval by the FCC, no new routers could be licensed and sold. The FCC also put restrictions on updated firmware, too.
At the time, the blanket ban didn’t allow for any exceptions, though the experts pointed to Starlink’s domestically made satellite routers as potentially the only routers that would escape the ban.
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