An open letter to the U.S. Congress

Third-Party Equipment Law on Fiber Optic Broadband

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With the transition of America's telecommunications' infrastructure from copper and coax to fiber, certain Internet providers like AT&T force their router on customers, inflating costs on customers while forcing an inferior router on an otherwise superior product, whereas this is not the case with Cable ISPs including Comcast which lets the open market decide which routers and modems are best. I demand Congress passes legislation and/or instructs the FCC to require Fiber ISPs to allow third-party routers on fiber optic networks, and open the authentication protocols if any to device manufacturers and end users. This lets the market decide which routers are best on full-fiber networks, while lowering costs for all broadband customers, not just those which use Cable ISPs.

▶ Created on May 16, 2022 by FreeBSDfan

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