At today's Commission open meeting, Chairman Brendan Carr's IN RE: DELETE, DELETE, DELETE initiative bore fruit when the agency adopted a Report and Order providing the cable industry with long-overdue relief on the rate regulation front. As long as Section 623 of the Communications Act remains on the books (see below for more on that), the rate a cable operator not facing "effective competition" – essentially a null set, legally speaking, since 2017 –charges for the Basic Service Tier (B...
