Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR
- The FCC has granted AT&T a one-year waiver to allow limited hardware modifications to previously certified routers.
- The waiver allows AT&T to substitute substrate materials in chipsets and swap memory modules.
- The carrier warned that previously certified routers could disappear from production lines
Back in March, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) implemented a ban on all foreign-made routers, ruling that products with ties to adversarial governments pose “unacceptable risks” to US infrastructure and citizens. While the ban is designed to prevent new foreign-made models from entering the country, previously approved hardware is supposed to remain unaffected. Despite that, it looks like the ongoing RAM shortage is causing some unforeseen complications, at least for AT&T. However, the ISP will now have a year to work everything out.
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