Yeah, they give you another Technicolor modem...
I have a Roku box. I get Sling tv for $30/month because I add the SEC channel for 4 months per year during college football season. I sign no contract and once college football season is over, I drop it.
I have two external hard drives that hold 1 terabyte each. I scan the BBC channels along with British channel 4, channel 5, ITV, Discovery, Smithsonian, PBS etc. to see if there are any programs I want. If so, I just search YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Torrents, etc and I can almost always find and download what I want. It then gets added to my huge library of saved programs on my external hard drives. I can then watch whenever I want for free with no commercials. I pay nothing. It’s awesome....TV completely under MY control.