FCC Prohibits New Approval of Foreign-Made Consumer Routers

aw-engineer

WASHINGTON, March 23, 2026—Today, the Federal Communications Commission updated its Covered List to include all consumer-grade routers produced in foreign countries. Routers are the boxes in every home that connect computers, phones, and smart devices to the internet. This followed a determination by a White House-convened Executive Branch interagency body with appropriate national security expertise that such routers “pose unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States or the safety and security of United States persons.”

allears

Are there any consumer-grade (or any grade) routers produced in the US?

nubinetwork

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495344 possibly others

cyanydeez

So on the one hand, this is an absurd ban; on the other hand, whenever this corrupt USA government does anything this absurd, it usually signals the start of the kleptocrat activities. So, whose going to come rescuse us with the CLEARLY superior technology that ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT implement the very thing the FCC is trying to protect the SMALL american from?

HotGarbage

Wonder which companies will present gold-plated routers to Trump in order to get around this.

spl757

minipc + wifi adapter = router

spl757

All this means is that you can't buy the electronics in a single plastic box. A router is just a small pc with wifi and ethernet. You can buy and build your own WiFi AP and make a router. It's so trivial even a caveman could do it.