When was the last time you liked your cable company’s set-top box? Odds are, you’re racking your brain trying to figure out a time when using the forced-upon-you bit of hardware for anything other ...

Imagine you wanted to launch a campaign to garner public support for a technology mandate that will steer profits to a politically favored class of companies. Publishing an eye-popping statistic that ...

The Federal Communications Commission is accepting public comment on a plan that chairman Tom Wheeler calls “Unlock the Box.” At first glance, the proposal seems like a clear-cut win for consumers and ...

Predictably, the cable industry revved its own lobbying effort into full throttle in reacting to the news. The self-described Future of TV Coalition -- a cable industry consortium funded by the likes ...

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 ...

The Federal Communications Commission today approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that seeks to give consumers more choices in the set-top boxes they use to watch cable TV. The vote was 3-2, ...