in New England. Maybe its because we hopped on FIOS when it first came around? Maybe it’s just been the standard? but yeah, no rental fees for the router or modem and they’ve come and upgraded them every 3 years or so.
The cable box and remote however are a different story. We pay the monthly rental for the box and the remote you buy for $10 (the tech gave us 4 remotes as spares actually for free). We only have one TV on cable itself…so there is the $10 or so a month for the DVR thing. But the internet stuff downstairs…nope. free to us.
