The cable industry has installed over 25,000 CableCARDs to date, ...
The cable industry has installed over 25,000 CableCARDs to date, of which Comcast has accounted for over 12,000, Comcast told the FCC in an ex parte filing. That volume is well below the one million CableCARD-ready DTV products CEA…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today!
had projected would be shipped by year- end 2004. But Comcast said the cable industry “is fully honoring its commitments to support CableCARDs” and working “assiduously” on negotiations toward a bidirectional plug & play agreement. Those are among the reasons Comcast and other MSOs have cited in urging the FCC to extend or scrap the July 2006 integration ban on cable set-tops over the objections of CE companies. Comcast told the Commission 14 CE makers have been approved by CableLabs, or self-verified for marketing CableCARD-ready products, which now number 161 models.