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Cable Raising Cable Box Rates
In response to FCC's July 1 mandate
As we recently noted, the FCC on July 1 enacted an eleven-year-old Congressional mandate on cable providers (Verizon was exempted), demanding that set-top boxes fully utilize cableCARDs. The idea was to help free consumers from having to rent the devices and give them a choice of alternatives. However, with plenty of rental money to be made, cable operators hadn't been trying very hard.
Cable's response this week to the new FCC rule: we're going to be charging consumers more, to the tune of $2 to $3 per month. Comcast calls the FCC move "an FCC tax of hundreds of millions of dollars on consumers." The cable industry also likes to insist that cable rates are actually dropping.
Cable Raising Cable Box Rates
In response to FCC's July 1 mandate
As we recently noted, the FCC on July 1 enacted an eleven-year-old Congressional mandate on cable providers (Verizon was exempted), demanding that set-top boxes fully utilize cableCARDs. The idea was to help free consumers from having to rent the devices and give them a choice of alternatives. However, with plenty of rental money to be made, cable operators hadn't been trying very hard.
Cable's response this week to the new FCC rule: we're going to be charging consumers more, to the tune of $2 to $3 per month. Comcast calls the FCC move "an FCC tax of hundreds of millions of dollars on consumers." The cable industry also likes to insist that cable rates are actually dropping.
