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TP-Link is one of the most Popular guidance device Manufacturers in the United States, but the company is facing a possible ban due to security concerns about its links with China. December Report from Wall Street It revealed that the American trade, defense and justice circles are investigating TP-Link, although there is no evidence of deliberate violations yet.
“We are an American company,” said Jeff Barney, president of TP-Link, “We are an American company,” said Jeff Barney, who focuses on China, the main righteousness, and we can prove our separation, “said Jeff Barney, President of TP-Link.
Raised A message from John Molinaar, Republic of Michigan, and Raja Krishnamori, Democrat in Illinois. Both are in the House of Representative selection committee on strategic competition between the United States and the Communist Party of China. They have shown fears that the Chinese state’s infiltrators may be able to waive the TP-LINK routers more easily than other brands, and thus infiltrate the American systems, and that TP-LINK is subject to Chinese law, which means that it can be forced to deliver information By Chinese intelligence officials.
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TP-Link was founded in China in 1996 by two brothers, and the TP-Link Usa was established in 2008. It was not until 2022 that the Chinese and American suites began to divide. Barney says that the transfer of 170 subsidiaries and all relevant ownership from Hong Kong and to the United States was delayed by the epidemic, but it was stripped and restructured by 2024.
TP-Link now has the main headquarters in California, Singapore and the manufacture of Vietnam. It searches, designs, developing and manufacturing everything except slides at home, according to Barne. “Our entities in China govern it directly, and our employees are bad by us, guaranteed by us, in our own facilities.” He also says that TP-Link has participated in documentation with the investigators and that its factory in Vietnam has been audited by American retail partners such as Walmart, Best Buy and Costco.
“Everyone has a bond in China,” says Barney. It claims that the American competition Netgear uses Chinese ODMS (original devices manufacturers) to build its products and that Apple depends on it Manufacturing in China. Netgear says their routers are manufactured in Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand, not China.
Competition fears
the WSJ report It indicates that TP-Link has a pioneering share of 64.9 percent of American router marketBut TP-Link opposes this. The company claims that its share is about 20 percent over the past few years, but it jumped to a 36.5 percent unit share and 30.7 percent stake in 2024. But even the minimum estimate of TP-Link shows a company in the rise. This hegemony was driven at low prices and relatively early implementation Wi-Fi 7 Guidance devices, which some see as a concerted effort to flood the American market.
“The technology should not be exorbitant,” says Barney. “We are trying to give the democratic character to these products.”
However, the wide products range raises questions, as many ask how TP-Link can benefit from routers that are sold at low prices compared to competition. Previous CNET references Dong Ngo Explore this point On the in -depth router review site, Dong teaches.