FCC Ready To Ban Apartment Cable TV Contracts

The regulatory agency wants to end exclusive apartment building contracts that allow cable companies to be the exclusive providers in buildings. “The FCC needed to do something to offset a 93% increase in cable rates during the last decade. Although rates for other telecommunications services, such as long-distance calling and cellphones, have dropped since Congress and the FCC loosened regulations in 1996, cable rates have gone in the other direction.”