Over 191,000 CableCARDs have been deployed by the 5 largest cable co...
Over 191,000 CableCARDs have been deployed by the 5 largest cable companies, NCTA said Fri. in its latest update to the FCC. Including the next 5 largest cable companies, the total exceeds 216,000 deployed by operators whose service areas…
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include about 90% of U.S. subscribers, NCTA said. By Nov. 10, 29 CE companies had 541 models of CableCARD-ready product verified, it said. CableLabs in Jan. will begin offering compatibility tests of one-way digital cable products and their multistream CableCARD interface, as it tests “conformance” to the single-stream CableCARD interface, NCTA said. Comcast had the largest number of CableCARD subscribers by far, 102,168 in Nov., but charges no monthly leasing fee, the report said. Time Warner Cable (TWC), which had 41,461 CableCARD subscribers, charged $2.05 on average -- the most among large MSOs. But most of its divisions are at $1.75, it said. TWC still is working on standard CableCARD lease rates across its divisions, it said. Pricing differs within the cable systems formerly owned by Adelphia and related systems that were swapped with Comcast, TWC said. TWC was virtually alone among major MSOs in offering to let subscribers self-install CableCARDs. Self-installs accounted for only 4% of TWC CableCARDs deployed, the report said. TWC also had the highest average number of truck rolls required to install a CableCARD -- 1.73.