Cybersecurity Policy Report, Some Foreign Routers Removed From FCC’s ‘Covered List’, (Aug 17, 2026)
By Lynn Stanton
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau has announced conditional approval and exemptions for certain foreign-made consumer-class routers that had been placed on the agency’s “covered list” of equipment and services deemed to be a national security risk to the nation’s communications networks.
The Department of Defense has granted conditional approvals, effective today and extending to Feb. 3, 2028, to Askey Computer Corp.’s ASK-NCM1100, ASK-NCM1100E, AKS-NCM3000, and ASK-NCQ8000 routers and to Zyxel Communications, Inc.’s EE4210-00, EE6610-00, and 5GNR (NR5331) routers, the bureau announced in a public notice in WT docket 18-89, ET docket 21-232, and EA docket 21-233. The conditional approvals exempt the routers from the covered list.
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