FCC Moves to Boost Cable Competition in Apartment Buildings

  • FCC Chief Rosenworcel sends apartments proposal to vote
  • Rosenworcel says she seeks more competition, consumer choice

Jessica Rosenworcel

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

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Cable operators would face more competition for the roughly one-third of Americans living in apartment buildings under an order advanced Friday at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel asked fellow commissioners to approve a measure that she said would “crack down on practices that lock out broadband competition and consumer choice.”