Xiaomi has made an important announcement that will impact all it’s mobile devices in over 30 countries around the world. In a post on its official discussion forum, the company announced that their devices will no longer support 5GHz Wi-Fi hotspots (band 1) in European Union (EU) and many other regions.
Here’s the exact announcement text:
5GHz Wi-Fi hotspots (band 1) will no longer be supported on our products in the following countries and regions due to the EU restrictions on the indoor use of 5Ghz bands 1 and 2
Following is the complete list of countries:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Egypt
- Hong Kong SAR (China)
- Singapore
- Turkey
- Ukraine
The Chinese company says the support for this functionality will be removed from the currently retailed devices in the coming software updates.
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Himanshu Arora
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