“It’s important to stress that the ban applies to the importation and sale rather than the use of foreign-made routers. Even if your router is now banned from sale in the US, you can continue to use it.

However, since it will take a significant amount of time to scale up production of entirely US-made routers, ISPs are likely to face severe challenges in providing them to new customers.”

#Technology #TechNews #WirelessRouters #ImportBan #SecurityThreat #FCC

https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/24/your-wireless-router-is-now-banned-from-sale-in-the-us-but-you-can-still-use-it/

Samsung Display fires killshot on ENTIRE repair industry with.... a patent on pixel patterns? 🤦‍♂️

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/fss3PFXz4CNtd4DL3qkR8Y

Saturday, September 20, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/09/saturday-september-20-2025/

@shaknais not entirely, as #Telstra doesn't use a standard-compliant profile.

• Also this may still brick calling & SMS functionality and they still enacted an #ImportBan on foreign devices that the Networks don't certify, which is evidently being flexed against subscribers...

A #PSA for anyone living, staying, entering or even travelling to/from #Australia:

Apparently, #Australia decided to mandate it's #GSM systems to be shutdown because some #GalaxyBrainChair wanted to yeet #2G & #3G and demand everything to use #4G & #5G when in fact #VoLTE support is spotty at best and #EmergencyCalling oftentimes is explicitly hardcoded to not use #WIFIcalling or VoLTE as providing #triangulation and #LocationData via #SS7 is a desired feature when someone calls EMS, Fire Dept or the Police for help...

• So essentially #tourists and anyone who hasn't an explicitly fully VoLTE-functional device they tested and verified to also do #EmergencyCalls via VoLTE are fecked with no reception when they need it the most!

• This WILL KILL PEOPLE!!!

As much as we want to bitch about #GSM & #GPRS / #UMTS being #outdated and #inefficient, there are reasons to at least keep 2G available - ranging from lower power consumption to higher resilience in emergency situations.

• #NewZealand for example does shutdown non-#EmergencyCalls during severe #Earthquakes so that people trapped and/or in need of urgent assistance can get through to dispatch operators and everyone else has to get in line and take a number aka. use #SMS or if existing #Internet to say "I'm fine!"...

• If the Ozzies really need that juicy #UHF #SubGHz #Spectrum it's totally feasible to instead change the #allocations and reconfigure #CellularNetworks to use lesser bandwith for 2G (i.e. only keeping the absolute mininum of channels available for any service) and thus clear up space...

And to add insult to injury, Australia passed a #NorthKorea|n-alike #CellPhone #ImportBan for any device that doesn't do i.e. the bespoke proprietary garbage that i.e. #Telstra, #Vodafone and #Optus do with the #baseband modems of their #branded devices...

Seriously, which #TechIlliterate dickhead decided it's a good idea to do that #3Gshutdown in Australia without even a basic 2G network up and running at all?

• At least #Switzerland [AFAIK] still has #3G up and running (tho it would've been wiser to do it like #Germany and keep #2G as emergency fallback with it's functions like #CellBroadcast....

Alter Verbrenner in 10 Jahren? "Egal, lass' nach Afrika verkaufen!".

Meanwhile in #Äthiopien (HEUTE!): “A decision has been made that automobiles cannot enter #Ethiopia unless they are electric ones”.

#ImportStopp #ImportBan
https://apanews.net/ethiopia-to-ban-importation-of-non-electric-cars/

Apple To Skirt US Import Ban On Watch Series 9 And Ultra 2 By Removing Blood Oxygen App #apple #bloodoxygenapp #importban #removal #smartwatches #us #watch #wearables

https://www.lowyat.net/2024/314492/apple-omits-blood-oxygen-app-avoid-ban/