FCC Offers ’06 Set-Top Compromise

[Gregg Lengling]

A Federal Communications Commission staff plan would retain the agency's ban on integrated set-tops but provide an exemption for low-cost digital boxes, according to FCC and industry sources. The FCC staff has offered a compromise apparently designed to bridge the differences between the cable and consumer-electronics industries over the need to ban cable companies from issuing integrated...

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