EQUIPThe Verge · 6h ago
Asus won’t say how it escaped the US router ban
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Asus has successfully avoided a United States ban on foreign-made consumer routers despite strict new national security requirements. The company has not disclosed how it satisfied federal mandates regarding security verification and domestic manufacturing expansion plans.
- 01United States policy now bans foreign consumer routers lacking approved domestic manufacturing plans
- 02Manufacturers must prove to the government that their hardware poses no national security threat
- 03Asus secured an exemption as of September 9th without disclosing specific compliance details
- 04Future router availability depends on manufacturers establishing time-bound US production facilities
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This spring, the United States banned all future foreign-made consumer routers - effectively all future routers - unless their makers could 1) convince the US government that they weren't a national security threat, and 2) submit "a detailed, time-bound plan to establish or expand manufacturing in the United States." As of September 9th, Asus now […]