Aww … poor little ISPs.

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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.

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

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

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Could you explain this more?

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

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