Bernie Sanders Slams Set-Top Box Market

November 11, 2015

In the letter Monday to FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, Markey and Blumenthal were joined by five other Democratic senators and Sanders.

They cited the $20 billion per year in set-top rental fees and, while they did not come out and say "all-vid," which is the proposal by computer companies for the FCC to require a universal box that weds video from various sources, they did say the time had come "for the FCC to enable millions of Americans to access an enormous amount of content in innovative, new, and less costly ways."

Now that the FCC-appointed Downloadable Security Technology Advisory Committee (DSTAC), created by Congress to come up with a downloadable successor to the CableCARD, has released its final report—offering up a range of options—the senators want the FCC to move quickly to a rulemaking that insures that the successor will be "cheap, efficient, widely available and easy to use."

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