Excerpt from: “It’s All Interconnected.”Social Contract • June 18th, 2014
Contract Type FiledJune 18th, 2014In the 1990s, the cable companies informed the FCC that they needed rate increases to pay for upgrades of the cable plant for new services, as well as fixing quality-of-service issues. There were over 900 rate cases pending at the FCC by 1995.1 The original cable franchises were only for one service, 'cable services,' but the companies wanted new revenues from broadband, Internet and even phone service.