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FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers

posted by n1 on Thursday August 04 2016, @03:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the open-carefully dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

The Federal Communications Commission's Enforcement Bureau has reached a $200,000 settlement with TP-Link in regards to selling in the US routers that could operate at output levels higher that allowed by FCC rules.

At the same time, TP-Link has also agreed to work with the open-source community and Wi-Fi chipset manufacturers to enable consumers to install third-party firmware on their Wi-Fi routers.

Source: Help Net Security

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday August 04 2016, @04:18AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday August 04 2016, @04:18AM (#383926)

    Oh, at first I thought the PR stunt was on TP-Link's part: marketing that they make routers more powerful than the FCC will allow.

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