Does your ISP let you bring your own modem?

We read every ISP's own policy page so you don't buy a modem that won't activate. 11 ISPs below publish an approved-device list, 16 publish requirements without a list — and 2 don't allow customer-owned equipment at all, where the honest advice is: buy nothing.

Pick your ISP

• Armstrong
  approved list
• Astound Broadband (RCN/Wave/Grande)
  approved list
• AT&T Internet
  own equipment not allowed
• Blue Ridge Communications
  approved list
• Breezeline
  approved list
• Buckeye Broadband
  approved list
• CenturyLink
  requirements published
• altafiber (Cincinnati Bell)
  requirements published
• Comporium
  approved list
• Consolidated Communications (Fidium Fiber)
  requirements published
• Frontier
  requirements published
• GCI (Alaska)
  approved list
• Google Fiber (GFiber)
  requirements published
• Metronet
  requirements published
• Midco
  approved list
• Optimum (Altice)
  requirements published
• Rise Broadband (now branded Rise Internet)
  requirements published
• Service Electric
  requirements published
• Shentel
  requirements published
• Sparklight (Cable One)
  approved list
• Spectrum (Charter)
  approved list
• Starry Internet
  requirements published
• TDS Telecom
  requirements published
• Verizon Fios
  own equipment not allowed
• Vyve Broadband
  requirements published
• Windstream
  requirements published
• WOW! (WideOpenWest)
  requirements published
• Xfinity (Comcast)
  approved list
• Ziply Fiber
  requirements published

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