Cable firms to FTC: We shouldn’t have to let users cancel service with a click
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Customers may "misunderstand the consequences of canceling," cable lobby says.

Cable firms to FTC: We shouldn’t have to let users cancel service with a click — Customers may “misunderstand the consequences of canceling,” say lobbyists::Customers may “misunderstand the consequences of canceling,” cable lobby says.

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This crap is why I haven’t had cable in over a decade.

And the FTC is about 30 years late on considering these regulations.

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About 20. Belgium has had these laws for around 18 years now because switching mobile provider was shit and it was found to not support competition within the mobile market ( no shit ! ).
At the same time they forced mobile providers to allow other providers to use their network infrastructure so new providers could be made without needing to make their own network infrastructure

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