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Well from a consumer POV, Comcast forcing you to lease their hardware that phones home to the cloud at all times, remotely set wifi password and all on the xfi gateway for a discount on rent seeking behaviour is incredibly bullshit.

That being said AT&T fiber at least doesn't allow you to use your own modem. You are required to use their equipment because they intentionally force no hardware to be "compatible" with their handoff. Last time I was using them you had to do some convoluted bullshit to even try (see https://github.com/MonkWho/pfatt)

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tzs3y ago

Just to be clear you don't have to lease Comcast hardware to get unlimited. You can add unlimited to a plan that does not include leased hardware. It's $30/month last I checked.

Prepend said Comcast would be worse than what they have with AT&T, which is 50 Mbps, 1 TB data cap, and leased hardware they do not like.

He could get similar on Comcast but without leased hardware and with a 1.2 TB data cap, so Comcast seems to be an improvement for them since it would be better on every aspect of AT&T that they mentioned. Hence my curiosity as to why they think Comcast would be worse for them.

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tzs3y ago

Just to be clear you don't have to lease Comcast hardware to get unlimited. You can add unlimited to a plan that does not include leased hardware. It's $30/month last I checked.

Prepend said Comcast would be worse than what they have with AT&T, which is 50 Mbps, 1 TB data cap, and leased hardware they do not like.

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