New address and the few internet options are all highway robbery.馃槺 @GetSpectrum wants to charge an extra $15 if you want wifi. Whut? @ATT marketing a slug-slow $50-a-month copper line. "For elderly people on email, maybe?" technician said sheepishly. Tell me your horror stories!
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Ah, even worse. They want to charge $5 a month forever if you use their equipment for wifi. It's 2018. WIFI IS HOW MOST EVERYONE USES INTERNET. Just price-gouging. I did contact a rep who had nothing else to say because she realized I understood the game.
Ask Spectrum
 @Ask_Spectrum
27 Jul 2018
Replying to @zeynep
My apologies, there is a $10 activation fee for wireless as well as a monthly cost of $5. You can avoid those costs by using your own equipment and setting up the wireless network yourself. I would also recommend contacting a representative at 855-707-... bit.ly/2Agnk83
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If you know to ask, they immediately say, ah, okay, use your own router. (which makes more sense). But if you are a non-technical, ordinary person, it just says "Do you want Wi-fi" and you are stuck.
Richard Herlihy @richardherlihy
27 Jul 2018
Replying to @zeynep
How would they enforce this? Do they not let you use your own router / configure it?
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Yes it is if you are not a technical person and do not understand what these are. I have my own router and this is not a problem for me. They are charging who-knows-how-many people monthly fees for something that should be standard.
Kamil C
 @kchoudhu
27 Jul 2018
1. Buy your own modem 2. Buy your own router. There, that wasn't so hard was it?
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Replying to @zeynep
My great-grandmother paid a monthly fee to rent her rotary phone from Pacific Bell for *50* years. When we told PacBell to come get their phone, they told us we could keep it.

Jul 27, 2018 路 7:21 PM UTC
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