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Re:Frontier customer bought his own router–but has to pay $1... by Zekio on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @06:42PM (#20340056)
How is this not illegal? if they are charging a rental fee for something they are not renting?
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Re:Frontier customer bought his own router–but has to pay $1... by londons_explore on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @09:09AM (#20343960)
They can easily say it's a condition of the rest of the service.

If you don't like it, don't sign up in the first place.

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Re:Frontier customer bought his own router–but has to pay $1... by ryanmercer on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @10:42AM (#20344676)
Exactly, they can just call it a "device management fee" "provisioning fee" or some such.
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