▲ 948 ▼ FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org 138 comments fedilink hide all child comments Aww ... poor little ISPs.
[–] Chthonic@slrpnk.net 60 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] WagesOf@artemis.camp 18 points 2 years ago (1 child) And get a discount for letting the cable company claim they have cable TV to scam money from ESPN. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] snowe@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Could you explain this more? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago ESPN is probably paying cable companies to air their shows over their cables to customers with a subscription to ESPN. permalink fedilink source parent [–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 16 points 2 years ago Yea... Comcast is really bad about that. When I had them a decade back, I made sure to being my own hardware. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WagesOf@artemis.camp 18 points 2 years ago (1 child) And get a discount for letting the cable company claim they have cable TV to scam money from ESPN. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] snowe@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Could you explain this more? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago ESPN is probably paying cable companies to air their shows over their cables to customers with a subscription to ESPN. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] snowe@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Could you explain this more? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago ESPN is probably paying cable companies to air their shows over their cables to customers with a subscription to ESPN. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago ESPN is probably paying cable companies to air their shows over their cables to customers with a subscription to ESPN. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 16 points 2 years ago Yea... Comcast is really bad about that. When I had them a decade back, I made sure to being my own hardware. permalink fedilink source parent