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

Final yr, Congress handed a legislation 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 corporations didn’t have the assets to cease charging you cash, the legislation ought to take full impact Monday.

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

Frontier specifically has been infamous for charging clients $10 a month for his or her gear “whether or not you employ 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 gear web page has modified to take away the half the place it talks in regards to the necessary price.