US regime acts to make your next router more expensive because “national security”

Source: BBC News [UK state media]

“The US has banned new foreign-made consumer internet routers over [fake] national security concerns. In an update on Monday to a list of equipment seen as not secure enough for use, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added all consumer-grade routers made outside the US. … Any new router made outside the US will now need to be approved by the FCC before it can be imported, marketed, or sold in the country. In order to get that approval, companies manufacturing routers outside the US must apply for conditional approval in a process that will require the disclosure of the firm’s foreign investors or influence, as well as a plan to bring the manufacturing of the routers to the US.” [editor’s note: In other words, the US regime is suppressing price competition on behalf of some Trump crony – TLK] (03/24/26)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74787w149zo