Is your web service supplier charging you each month for the cable modem or router that you simply bought with your individual cash? Or, maybe, have you ever by no means bothered to purchase these gadgets since you couldn’t escape the payment? That payment is illegitimate as of yesterday. The Verge studies:

Final yr, Congress handed a regulation that ought to have mounted this ridiculous loophole as of June twentieth, 2020 — and although the FCC managed to increase the deadline six months by spinning up some bullshit about how cable firms didn’t have the assets to cease charging you cash, the regulation ought to take full impact Monday.

Do be aware that the precise textual content of the regulation nonetheless permits some BS to happen. In case your ISP sends you a router, you’ll have to return it to keep away from expenses.

Frontier specifically has been infamous for charging clients $10 a month for his or her tools “whether or not you utilize it or not” — the corporate’s phrases, not mine — however Frontier is clearly conscious it received’t be capable to try this anymore. Beginning this month, the corporate’s tools web page has modified to take away the half the place it talks in regards to the obligatory payment.