FYI, Spartan.
Microsoft and 343 Industries are winding down Halo Xbox 360 services over the next year. The two have halted digital sales of all Halo games for the platform (DLC is still available) and will shut down matchmaking, challenges and other key online features for the titles “no sooner than” December 18th, 2021.
This doesn’t affect
Master Chief Collection games or
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition, but it does include the backwards-compatible versions you play on the Xbox One or Series X/S. The Xbox 360 versions will still support custom online games, local games and online squads you just can’t use features that depend on services.
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It’s Finally Illegal for ISPs to Charge Rental Fees for Equipment You Own By Ryan Whitwam on December 21, 2020 at 2:01 pm
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Internet service providers (ISPs) in the US have made exploiting customers into an art form. It has long been legal for ISPs to charge you money for equipment that you’ll never use, but thankfully, that is finally changing. A new law went into effect on Sunday that prevents your ISP from making equipment rental fees mandatory.
If you’ve set up internet service in the last few years, you’ll know that Comcast, Frontier, and others try to get you to use their modem-router combo devices. For some people, this is easier to set up and you don’t have to worry about buying an expensive modem of your own up front. However, that $10 monthly fee really adds up, and owning a modem and router will save you money over the long-term. The wireless per
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Internet modems and TV broadbands are among the devices that would not charge rental fees anymore after the Television Viewer Protection Act (TVPA) ended with its six months of extension for leeway. The US Congress law has taken into consideration that people were paying for rental or ownership fees on the devices used to connect to the internet or cable TV.
The good news for all internet and TV broadband cable users is that the leeway has now ended its extension that gave the Internet Service Providers (ISP) more than a year to prepare for the new law. This act would certainly take a huge chunk of users monthly fees and the profits of the ISPs.
Rental fees for customer-owned routers will be illegal starting Monday
JC Torres - Dec 20, 2020, 9:38pm CST
One would think that using your own equipment that you bought yourself would mean avoiding having to rent something similar and pay for that rental. That common-sense line of thinking, however, didn’t seem to apply to Internet broadband providers who still charge subscribers for the ISP-provided routers they don’t use anyway. Starting next week, however, that will finally become illegal thanks to a new law that was actually written to protect consumers from hidden cable-TV subscription fees.
Consumers will perhaps thank Frontier Communications for the series of events that makes what lawmakers called an “unconscionable business” illegal. Frontier continued to charge its subscribers for router rental fees even if they were using their own preferred routers, justifying the charge as part of higher support costs when covering customer-owned equipment.
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