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Re: Relief in Store for Cable TV Subscribers

T (nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net)
Fri, 8 Jun 2007 21:16:32 -0400

In article <telecom26.161.1@telecom-digest.org>, ap@telecom-digest.org
says...

> By JOHN DUNBAR and DEBORAH YAO,
> Associated Press Writers

> WASHINGTON - It has been 11 years since Congress voted to break the
> cable television industry's stranglehold on set-top boxes -- the
> devices that consumers need to receive digital programming and change
> channels.

> So why are you still paying $5 or more a month for that thing on top of
> your TV?

It's because they don't want people owning the boxes. There are a
couple things that motivate them. The first is that if you multiply
that little $5 fee by the number of customers they serve, it's a nice
littel chunk of change.

The second is that if you OWN the box you can reverse engineer it if
you so wish.

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