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NetGear become the first router vendor to receive a reprieve from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s router ban. The new rules prohibit the import of foreign-made consumer devices ...

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 ...

Netgear, the company with—by one estimate—the third-largest router market share, just got incredible news: it’s exempt from the FCC’s ban on foreign-made routers until October of 2027. Why it’s ...

What just happened? Netgear has become the first retail consumer router company to avoid the FCC's ban on new foreign-made consumer routers, giving it a way to keep selling future products in the US ...

Well, that came sooner than I’d expected. Hot on the heels of the news that the U.S. government had banned all foreign-made routers that weren’t already on sale or approved by the FCC, word came on ...

The FCC has moved to block most foreign-made routers over national security concerns, but NETGEAR has been granted a rare exemption. While rivals scramble to comply or shift production, NETGEAR can ...

Netgear is the first major vendor of consumer routers to obtain an exemption from the US government’s sweeping ban on foreign-made routers. The Federal Communications Commission yesterday announced an ...

Less than a month after announcing a controversial ban on foreign-made routers, the FCC says it will exempt Netgear, allowing it to sell new Wi-Fi routers and mesh models to consumers, even though ...

PCWorld reports that the FCC granted conditional exemptions to Netgear and Adtran from its foreign-made router ban, allowing continued US sales. Netgear’s popular Nighthawk and Orbi series routers are ...

I ditched my iPhone's hotspot for this 5G travel router - and I'm never going back ...

Update 03/17/2026: A Netgear spokesperson gave us the following statement: "Netgear is the first retail consumer router company to receive conditional approval from the FCC as a trusted consumer ...