There is no such thing as a FREE router.
We all PAY for our routers through the montly fees, setup charges and more. You may be provided a "free" router because Verizon wanted to increase subscriptions. The cost of these are factored into their sales/marketing plan and long-term goals. If you think the cost of your router isn't factored into your subscription terms, you're living in a fantasy world.
With all the money Verizon (an other companies) are raking in via our subscriptions/fees, they should NOT be charging us extra for a router upgrade. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay $100.00 for a new one.
Worse comes to worse, my router will somehow no longer work and then Verizon can come out and provide me with a new one at their own expense if they want to keep me as a customer. As it is I have the Optimum Online Cablevision guys here just about every week trying to get me to switch providers.
I have no loyalty to any of these companies especially when they're looking to kill net neutrality laws so that they can make us pay more for the content we want like Netflix or Hulu, etc. That's just what we need. It's bad enough the cable companies are our ISP's.
So, I'll not be outlaying an extra $100 out of my pocket to use the service. Period.
