REUTERS/Mike Segar If you have cable TV, you're probably overpaying to rent a set-top box from your cable company – likely to the tune of hundreds of dollars a year. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is about to change that. In a Wednesday press release, the FCC announced a proposal to ban anti-competitive cable company hardware practices. The new rule would open up the set-top box market to third-party innovators. Their case for the regulation is simple: Ninety-nine percent of pay-...
REUTERS/Mike Segar If you have cable TV, you're probably overpaying to rent a set-top box from your cable company – likely to the tune of hundreds of dollars a year. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is about to change that. In a Wednesday press release, the FCC announced a proposal to ban anti-competitive cable company hardware practices. The new rule would open up the set-top box market to third-party innovators. Their case for the regulation is simple: Ninety-nine percent of pay-...
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