• adarza@lemmy.ca
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    they were ‘free’ as in no per-month rental fees… for an undisclosed period of time, anyway. they certainly would have started charging monthly for them at some point. the cable company would not ever willingly send out free, no-strings-attached electronics equipment you never had to return and was yours-to-keep.

    • The_v@lemmy.world
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      State forced them to send them out as part of the digital conversion. It was a condition of allowing the change.