Cable ISPs such as Spectrum sell capacity on their customers routers for such situations, including ‘smart’ appliances.
Xfinity (Comcast) does the same, and the LG TV data leak demonstrated it joining these open “xfinitywifi” SSIDs to transmit telemetry home (edit: retracted, see below subthread).
You can see a map of these nodes with https://wigle.net/
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Xfinity (Comcast) does the same, and the LG TV data leak demonstrated it joining these open “xfinitywifi” SSIDs to transmit telemetry home (edit: retracted, see below subthread).
You can see a map of these nodes with https://wigle.net/