Cancel your Frontier subscription. Sorry, if you can’t.
Finally, the government has done away with a rite of passage into the various inconveniences of adulthood: the 45-minute phone call with your internet service provider bickering over why there’s a $10 monthly “rental fee” on your bill for a router you don’t use. A law passed in 2019 has made it illegal for ISPs to charge rental fees for routers for people who own their own—but, as Ars Technica reports, the FCC has allowed companies to keep charging until December under the guise of financial hardships (on ISPs) due to the covid-19 pandemic. The company Frontier has taken them up on that generous offer and will keep charging you until it doesn’t have to. It is a true American telecom company.
