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Aww ... poor little ISPs.

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[–] Chthonic@slrpnk.net 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not actually about listing the fees. They're worried that if they have to list the fees, customers will realize they're paying 19.99 a month to rent a router, or are getting charged for a land line they didn't ask for.

[–] WagesOf@artemis.camp 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And get a discount for letting the cable company claim they have cable TV to scam money from ESPN.

[–] snowe@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

ESPN is probably paying cable companies to air their shows over their cables to customers with a subscription to ESPN.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 16 points 1 year ago

Yea... Comcast is really bad about that. When I had them a decade back, I made sure to being my own hardware.