Is your web service supplier charging you each month for the cable modem or router that you simply bought with your personal cash? Or, maybe, have you ever by no means bothered to purchase these objects since you couldn’t escape the charge? That charge is against the law as of yesterday. The Verge experiences:
Final yr, Congress handed a legislation that ought to have fastened this ridiculous loophole as of June twentieth, 2020 — and although the FCC managed to increase the deadline six months by spinning up some bullshit about how cable corporations didn’t have the sources to cease charging you cash, the legislation ought to take full impact Monday.
Do word that the precise textual content of the legislation nonetheless permits some BS to happen. In case your ISP sends you a router, you’ll must return it to keep away from expenses.
Frontier specifically has been infamous for charging prospects $10 a month for his or her gear “whether or not you employ it or not” — the corporate’s phrases, not mine — however Frontier is clearly conscious it gained’t have the ability to do this anymore. Beginning this month, the corporate’s gear web page has modified to take away the half the place it talks in regards to the necessary charge.