TP-Link is one of the Popular router Manufacturers in the United States, but the company is facing a potential ban due to security concerns about its links with China. December one Report from Wall Street Magazine Revealing that US trade, defense and justice departments are investigating TP-Link, although there is no evidence of intentional misconduct that has not appeared.
We are a US company, Jeff Jeff Barney, President of TP-Link told Wired, we have no link to TP-Link Tech, focusing on mainland China and we can prove it Minh's separation.
The investigation was stated by A letter from John Moolenaar, a Republican party for Michigan and Raja Krishnamorethi, a Democratic Party of Illinois. Both are in the Commission to select the House of Representatives on the strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. They have devised concerns that Chinese state-owned hackers may be able to compromise the TP-Link routers easier than other brands and thus penetrate into the systems of flowers. Ky, and TP-Link must obey Chinese laws, which means that it may be forced to hand over we are sensitive to the United States information from Chinese intelligence officials.
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TP-Link was founded in China in 1996 by brothers and TP-Link USA established in 2008. Until 2022, China and the United States began to break up. The process of transferring 170 subsidiaries and all relevant ownership out of Hong Kong and into the United States was delayed by pandemic, Barney said, but it was divested and restructured by 2024.
TP-Link is currently based in California and Singapore and manufacturers in Vietnam. It researches, designed, developed and produced everything except for indoor chipset, according to Barney. Our entities in China are directly managed by us, our staff have been exchanged by us, guaranteed by us, in our facilities. He also said that TP-Link shared documents with its investigators and factories in Vietnam that were audited by US retail partners such as Walmart, Best Buy and Costco.
Everyone has a relationship in China, Barney said. He stated that US rival Netgear uses ODM of China (original equipment manufacturer) to build its products and even Apple rely on Made in China. Netgear said its routers were made in Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand, not China.
Competitive concern
The WSJ report Suggest that TP-Link has 64.9 % of the top shares of Market of American routersBut this TP-Link dispute. The company claimed its shares rang about 20 percent in the past few years, but has increased to a unit of 36.5 % and the rate of $ 30.7 % by 2024. But even estimates are estimated The lower TP-Link shows a company that is promoted. This dominance has been motivated by a strong low price and relatively early implementation Wi-Fi 7 The router, which is considered by some people to be a coordination effort to flood the US market.
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