F.C.C. Looking to Re-Regulate Cable

The FCC has (finally) appeared to nitice that Cable is a natural monopoly, and had decided to enforce the so called 70/70 rule^*, and it is proposing some new regulations:

• Prevent significant new a mergers and acquisition by the large cable players.
  
• Require A la carte channel sales.
  
• That would make it easier for independent programmers, which are often small operations, to lease access to cable channels.
• Set a cap on cable companies at 30% of the market.

It's about bloody time.

^*"The agency may adopt rules necessary to promote “diversity of information sources” once the commission concludes that cable television is available to at least 70 percent of American households, and at least 70 percent of those households actually subscribe to a cable service."