Agreed. Presumably the only thing they'd be able to reliably connect to is things like xfinity hotspots. The idea that they'd have some kind of generic login f

Agreed. Presumably the only thing they'd be able to reliably connect to is things like xfinity hotspots. The idea that they'd have some kind of generic login for this would be hilariously insane and definitely make headlines. But the idea of eg samsung brokering a deal with comcast to get conditional access to comcast modems to upload telemetry data in exchange for a modest access fee? You could even market this feature directly to consumers: If you're in a house that rents a modem from comcast, your samsung smart TV "just works", and nobody has to fiddle with the wifi password. There's no evidence that this happens today, but I'd be surprised if it hadn't been pitched repeatedly, and was currently under construction in some form.