FCC just handed Netgear a de facto router monopoly in the US

Posted by TechDigest

The Federal Communications Commission has announced that Netgear has been given conditional approval that effectively exempts it from a previous ban on foreign-made networking routers. The conditional approval gives the company a de facto — though potentially temporary — monopoly on the selling and

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tomspark wrote:

That's wild, but the headline is overselling it pretty hard. Netgear gets conditional approval and suddenly it's a monopoly? There are still TP-Link, Asus, Ubiquiti, and a bunch of other players in the market — this just lifts the ban on Netgear specifically. Bad policy move imo, but "de facto monopoly" is a stretch.