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[ NNSquad ] Cable Companies Want Government to Help Them Increase Your Bill & Limit Competition
----- Forwarded message from Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:14:30 -0500 From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] Cable Companies Want Government to Help Them Increase Your Bill & Limit Competition Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@listbox.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Dewayne Hendricks" <dewayne@warpspeed.com> Date: Feb 8, 2012 3:54 PM Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Cable Companies Want Government to Help Them Increase Your Bill & Limit Competition To: "Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net" <dewayne-net@warpspeed.com> Cable Companies Want Government to Help Them Increase Your Bill & Limit Competition By Boxee Feb 8, 2012 < http://blog.boxee.tv/2012/02/08/cable-companies-want-government-to-help-them-increase-your-bill-limit-competition/ > Amidst flat and declining cable TV subscription numbers, Cable companies are lobbying the FCC to force every cable subscriber to rent cable boxes or cable cards even if they don’t want or need them now. Currently cable companies must deliver broadcast channels in a way that enables tuners like Boxee Live TV (and the ones in your TV) to display those channels without any extra hardware. Now the cable companies are asking the FCC to change the rules and turn access off. Their main excuse being that it will reduce the need for the cable guy to drive to your house to disconnect your cable and thus be better for the environment. Considering this ruling would also mean millions more set top boxes and cable cards are manufactured, distributed, and attached to electric outlets (see below for consumption), their argument doesn’t hold water. It’s akin to a cable executive taking a private jet to an FCC meeting, but insisting on having recycled toilet paper on-board to help save the environment. [snip] Dewayne-Net RSS Feed: <http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress> ------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message -----
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