Frontier: if you don't buy your router, we'll charge you a rental fee; if you DO buy your router, we'll charge you a "support" fee

I wonder why he wouldn’t try to appeal to the FCC based on the Carterfone precedent. Charging a fee for use of a device which is 100% compatible with the network sounds exactly like when AT&T used to charge people to rent their phones and declined to allow third party equipment because of compatibility reasons. I know Pai doesn’t care about consumers either way, but this seems to be asking for a lawsuit that could be very fun to watch.

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