The five largest cable operators deployed over 241,000 CableCARDs...
The five largest cable operators deployed over 241,000 CableCARDs as of May 31, the National Cable and Telecom Association (NCTA) said Monday in its latest progress report at the FCC. Counting the five next largest companies, the number of…
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CableCARDs deployed reached over 271,000 serving about 90 percent of cable subscribers in the country, NCTA said. As of June 15, 26 CE makers have had 568 CableCARD-ready product models certified, NCTA said. In its last report, in March, NCTA said over 259,000 CableCARDs had been deployed by the 10 largest companies. The number of CE makers certified for CableCARD-ready products didn’t change since the last report, but the number of models was up from 548. With the July 1 FCC CableCARD deadline looming, the five largest cable companies had 122,730 CableCARDs in inventory, said the report. Comcast had the most CableCARDs in stock, 59,375, but also by far the most CableCARD subscribers, 143,195, said the report. Comcast reported the most CableCARD “self-installs” in the quarter ended May 31 -- 1,979, or 13.9 percent of total installations.