Cable Choice

Cable competition makes sense

James K. Glassman, editor in chief of The American magazine wrote an interesting piece this week on what he called the "most penicious monopoly in America": the cable television market. He makes a great point that in this year of partisanship and legislative gridlock, the states (and even the U.S. House of Represenentatives) that have passed cable competition legislation did so with wide margins of agreement. Yet the U.S. Senate can't even get a floor vote on a federal bill that promises to deliver billions in savings for consumers as well as billions in economic investment. It makes you just scratch your head. You can read the article at: http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.24951/pub_detail.asp

California gets competition

Competition has just been unleashed in California. With more than 36 million people, most of them cable customers, the state has the most cable savings to gain  -- $852 million a year.  It's not surprising that lawmakers there wanted credit for helping consumers save that money. It shouldn't be so hard for the U.S. Senate to see the potential good that nationwide cable competition would offer.  I've signed the C4CC pledge to keep fighting for cable choice even though conventional wisdom says it's a dead issue this year. Join me!  Get your share of the cable savings. Sign the pledge at http://www.Consumers4Choice.org   

C4CC Launches We Deserve Cable Choice Campaign

Monopoly cable television has clearly not worked for America. Rates are too high. Customer service quality is too low. And programming just isn't what it could be.

We just launched a new campaign to bring control over cable programming and costs back to the people who truly deserve it: the consumers.

There is only one thing that will get cable companies to change their ways: competition. You may have heard a lot lately about a bill in Congress that would create competition in the cable industry. Unfortunately, this bill is now stalled in the U.S. Senate. Some people say there's no hope for getting it passed this year. They say Congress is too distracted by the upcoming election and that the proposed law is just too complicated.

We think they're wrong.

We are on a mission to get the Senate to focus on giving consumers what they need: more cable television providers in the marketplace. If you're like us, and are tired of excuses and of the limited choices of cable providers available to you, we need your help. Please join in the fight by reading the information we send to you over the next few weeks, pledging your support for cable competition, and getting the word out to your friends and family.

Because when cable companies compete for customers, customers win.