Republicans want the FCC to shut down potential set-top box overhaul
January 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Republicans want to make sure the Federal Communications Commission doesn’t continue with plans to shake up the set-top box market.
In a letter to newly appointed FCC chairman Ajit Pai, Republicans on the House’s Energy and Commerce Committee — which monitors the agency — urged the commission to close its set-top box proceeding, killing the proposed rules once and for all.
The rules were proposed last year and would require cable providers to make their TV streams more accessible to other devices. The proposal initially would have let any company make a set-top box that could receive any cable provider’s TV stream, which could have led to a flurry of far more interesting…
