MacLeech It’s more than just a “request”….
I am aware of that, but choose not to go through all the gory details (and while Kyrio has a price, I believe Comcast also has an agreement to be signed (and I believe a fee) to be able to be eligible to even submit to Kyrio).
MacLeech It’s up to the individual modem maker to decide if the COAM testing costs are worth it. Will those COAM certification and future support costs be covered by future sales of that model modem?
Again, I understand, and with Charter providing free (to you) modems, and D4.0 FDD modems currently included in X-class plans, and likely costing in the order of at least $500, it is not at all clear the existing COAM vendors will choose to continue to do so (Netgear suggested, but did not commit, to looking at D4.0 FDD, but as they are not participants in the consortium to fund development of the chipset they are not going to see availability of more then R&D silicon quantities for quite some time, even if they decide they can find buyers for their $800 modem (Netgear always has had a high premium)). As long as Charter and Comcast (eventually) offer a process to validate a COAM, even if no vendor chooses to do so, they will have met their FCC requirements.
