FCC Grants AT&T One-Year Extension Amid China Router Ban

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has given AT&T a one-year waiver to address the ban on foreign-made routers, allowing the telecom giant to make necessary hardware changes to approved devices. This decision comes after the FCC imposed a ban on foreign Wi-Fi routers earlier this year, restricting companies from making permissive changes beyond security patches. The waiver permits AT&T’s suppliers to modify substrate materials and memory modules in routers on the Covered List. AT&T’s waiver request was partially granted by the FCC based on supply-chain shortages and the need to maintain broadband availability for customers. The waiver, valid until May…