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Originally Posted by roughbeast
Jeez qasdfdsaq so picky!! Grrrr. You know what I meant. 'YOUR' as in the one installed in YOUR house. Take the anal retention pills quick! lol
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It's not an issue of pickyness. In this case it is actually the core distinction. VM could contractually force you to have the equipment in your house and not allow you to use it,
if you had any other VM services. They could run it from their STB, or phone, or anything else. It's in your house, but it's
their equipment and they can do whatever they want with it - your only choice would be to cancel
all VM services.
Not much different to cable TV. If you have cable TV, your TV box also gets its own internet connection to VM's network. You don't pay for it, you can't use it, you can't control it, you can't cancel it, even if you cancel your broadband. To get the service you want, you are forced to have the second internet connection that you have no control over. You simply must tolerate that connection in order to receive other VM services you want. Yet you don't hear people complain about their set top box stealing "their" broadband...
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Originally Posted by nomadking
How? If I don't pay for my BB there wouldn't be a shub to piggy back on.
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1) Using their street cabinets
2) They can force you to have a Shub even if you cancel your BB. They don't, but they
can. Hell, they
could put a micro Superhub to run it from
inside your junction box. And you'd have to pay them to remove it.
As Ignition explained, it's nothing to do with your broadband connection.