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Trump admin exempts SpaceX's Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers

Monday, July 27, 2026


The Trump administration exempted SpaceX's Starlink from an FCC ban on foreign-made routers. Starlink manufactures routers at a facility in Texas and also produces routers in Vietnam. The FCC ban targets foreign-manufactured networking equipment, though the scope and implementation details of the exemption were not specified in available reports.

Original reporting: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/starlink-gets-exemption-from-fcc-ban-on-routers-made-outside-the-us/

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