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I’d love to try out some of their products, but my government has banned them. So much for the land of the free.
even if you got them; you're going to encounter some stupid rules:
i bought at xiaomi phone and i can't use it on most cell phone carriers in the united states because they're banned based on their imea to please uncle sam; so it doesn't matter that it's capable of working, it's just not allowed.
same is true for hearing aids: when i connect them using ordinary bluetooth, they work fine on both my xiaomi and samsung phones; but when i use the recommended software, they only work on the samsung and their tech support told me that they don't work on "banned" hardware like xiaomi or huawei.
i bet, in the near future, huawei's hardware will be banned from connecting to wifi networks based on thier mac address and american smart phones will refuse to share data w then via hotspot for the same reason.
I do not belive it feasible to police personal consumer WAPs or force mac address filtering on them. Perhaps they will block the mac addresses on govt APs.
The rabbit hole I went into to get my smartphone to work in this country has taught me that Google silently placed controls that American carriers wanted into all Android builds since at least version 12 so it's not hard to imagine that the likes of Netgear or Linksys doing something similar to the stock firmware of thier home routers in the near future, when Uncle Sam inevitably tells them to.
In at&t's & signia's case: Uncle Sam hasn't said anything yet, they decided to pre-comply out of their own accord; so it doesn't even have to be a law.