http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/fcc-may-clamp-down-on-cable-television/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:25:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/fcc-may-clamp-down-on-cable-television/#comment-55271 Ike Elliott Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:16:47 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-55271 It seems that the FCC is using suspicious statistics to extend its power base. The 1984 Cable Act's 70/70 provisions were designed to prevent Cable companies from exerting too much market power. It seems strange that the FCC is having to include Video-over-Fiber subscribers from the competing telephone companies in order to reach the necessary 70% threshold in order to impose regulation. More on my blog at <a href="<a rel="nofollow" href="http://ikeelliott.typepad.com/telecosm/2007/11/fcc-regulatory-.html"">http://ikeelliott.typepad.com/telecosm/2007/11/fcc-regulatory-.html"</a> title="<a rel="nofollow" href="http://ikeelliott.typepad.com/telecosm/2007/11/fcc-regulatory-.html"">http://ikeelliott.typepad.com/telecosm/2007/11/fcc-regulatory-.html"</a> target="_blank" ref="nofollow"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://ikeelliott.typepad.com/telecosm/2007/11/fcc...">http://ikeelliott.typepad.com/telecosm/2007/11/fcc...</a></a> It seems that the FCC is using suspicious statistics to extend its power base. The 1984 Cable Act's 70/70 provisions were designed to prevent Cable companies from exerting too much market power. It seems strange that the FCC is having to include Video-over-Fiber subscribers from the competing telephone companies in order to reach the necessary 70% threshold in order to impose regulation. More on my blog at http://ikeelliott.typepad.com/telecosm/2007/11/fcc-regulatory-.html“ title=”http://ikeelliott.typepad.com/telecosm/2007/11/fcc-regulatory-.html“ target=”_blank” ref=”nofollow”>http://ikeelliott.typepad.com/telecosm/2007/11/fcc…

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