FCC Chair Wants To Open Up Cable Box Market

FCC Chair Tom Wheeler wants to unleash consumers from their cable boxes.  In this piece for Re/Code, he writes in part that the cost of paying for a set-up box adds significantly to the cost of cable subscriptions and he thinks it’s time for the FCC to address that issue.

One way to do that effectively, says Mr. Wheeler, is to allow third party manufacturers, like Google, Apple, and Microosoft, to provide consumers with boxes and other devices that would allow them to get cable services without paying their cable companies for those services. Here’s a link to a fact sheet on the proposal.

More here from NPR.