US Bans New Foreign Routers

The Federal Communications Commission has ordered a ban on imports of any new consumer routers made abroad, citing a White House review that called them a 'severe cybersecurity risk.' The measure spares existing models and allows Pentagon exemptions, effectively freezing future market entry by most foreign router vendors. — This policy marks a concrete escalation in using import/regulatory rules to decouple consumer network hardware from adversary suppliers, with implications for internet security, prices, vendor competition, and geopolitical tech rivalry.