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FCC May Move to Cap Cable Company Size

Posted by Zonk on from the maybe-we-could-get-decent-service-again dept.

explosivejared writes "The FCC is making plans to bring back the concept of a 'size limit' on cable operators. 'FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has enough support on the five-member commission to pass a measure that would bar cable companies from owning systems that have more than a 30-percent share of U.S. multichannel video subscribers ... the FCC could have a difficult time defending the 30-percent cap in court. The move comes six years after a federal appeals court threw out an identical FCC rule on the grounds that the agency did not have enough evidence to justify it."

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  1. How useful this will be by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 2, Funny

    So I end up with Comcast East and Comcast West. How much better will my life really be?

    --
    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."