Circumventing Legal Regulation by proxy: It is now illegal for an ISP to charge a modem rental fee if you are not using their modem. My Internet provider (Comcast) circumvents this by tying a bundled subscription (security monitoring) to the rented modem. If I use their rented modem I get the "Internet+security monitoring" bundled plan at a "discount rate" of aprox $80/mth (plus $15/mth for modem rental). If I do not use their rented modem, I do not qualify for the discounted bundled plan. A plain "Internet only" plan is $180/mth.
Circumventing Legal Regulation by proxy: It is now illegal for an ISP to charge a modem rental fee if you are not using their modem. My Internet provider (Comcast) circumvents this by tying a bundled subscription (security monitoring) to the rented modem. If I use their rented modem I get the "Internet+security monitoring" bundled plan at a "discount rate" of aprox $80/mth (plus $15/mth for modem rental). If I do not use their rented modem, I do not qualify for the discounted bundled plan. A plain "Internet only" plan is $180/mth.