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Commentary: A proposal by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler calls for cable companies like Comcast to "unlock the set-top box." Unlocking isn't enough. The box should die, once ...

A group of Senate and House Democrats are getting behind the FCC in pushing for rules that will force cable companies to open up the set-top box business. Marguerite Reardon Former senior reporter ...

First, the Federal Communications Commission had a grand plan to blow up the set-top box and free consumers from the confines of their service provider. Then the FCC tempered that objective by asking ...

Have you looked at your cable bill lately? Turns out you're not just paying for TV channels. Your cable company is also most likely charging you every month for rent on your cable box. Almost all of ...

A long-awaited moment for cable TV customers may come this week if federal regulators vote to untether set-top boxes from subscription packages. The Federal Communications Commission meets on Thursday ...

If FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has his way, most people who subscribe to cable will stop paying a monthly fee to rent a set-top box from their provider. As we've reported, about 99 percent of cable TV ...

The venerable cable set-top box is about to break the bonds of industry control and show up on retail shelves… but not all at once. “I wouldn’t call it a flood… we envision them popping up in retail,” ...