<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>What adds insult to injury is that customers rent the equipment from Comcast, so not only are they paying for the equipment, but then Comcast is essentially reusing that without their explicit consent.</div><div><br></div><div>Makes me glad I decided to go with my own equipment a while back. 6 months of no rental fee savings pays for the cable modem purchase. Setting it up with them was as painless as anything you have to work with Comcast about.</div><div><br></div><div>-Scott</div><div><br>On Jun 10, 2014, at 5:11 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr">+1.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 10, 2014 5:09 PM, "Jeff Hubbs" <<a href="mailto:jhubbslist@att.net">jhubbslist@att.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>It occurs to me that land used to erect
and operate an antenna (to include huge cell phone antennas) is
not had for free; the antenna operator either leases or buys that
land. In my view, this should be no different: opt-in in
exchange for a discount...and the broadband operator shouldn't
have the only say as to how much of a discount; that should
perhaps fall into a PSC's wheelhouse.<br>
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New submitter green453 writes: 'As a Houston resident with
limited home broadband options, I found the following
interesting: Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle reports
(warning: paywalled) that Comcast plans to turn 50,000 home
routers into public Wi-Fi hotspots without their users providing
consent. Comcast plans to eventually convert 150,000 home
routers into a city-wide WiFi network. A similar post (with no
paywall) by the same author on the SeattlePI Tech Blog explains
the change. From the post on SeattlePI: "What's interesting
about this move is that, by default, the feature is being turned
on without its subscribers' prior consent. It's an opt-out
system – you have to take action to not participate. Comcast
spokesman Michael Bybee said on Monday that notices about the
hotspot feature were mailed to customers a few weeks ago, and
email notifications will go out after it's turned on. But it's a
good bet that this will take many Comcast customers by
surprise."' This follows similar efforts in Chicago and the Twin
Cities.
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