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 ...

The Federal Communications Commission's proposal to issue new set-top-box rules that would enable people to more easily watch television programs on tablets and smart TVs has drawn praise from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The FCC says the average cable consumer spends an average of $231 a year in cable box rental fees. Under a new proposal, that money would go back in the cable buyer’s pocket. The FCC voted Thursday to ...

Raise your hand if you hate paying your cable provider a monthly fee to "rent" their mediocre cable boxes month after month. The FCC has been investigating potential ways to change up this particular ...

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,” ...

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