{"id":40059,"date":"2023-12-14T12:55:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=40059"},"modified":"2023-12-14T12:55:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:55:45","slug":"fcc-votes-to-ban-termination-fees-for-quitting-cable-and-satellite-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/12\/14\/fcc-votes-to-ban-termination-fees-for-quitting-cable-and-satellite-services\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC votes to ban termination fees for quitting cable and satellite services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Federal Communications Commission&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/12\/13\/fcc-votes-to-ban-termination-fees-for-cable-and-satellite-services.html\">voted yesterday to ban early termination fees<\/a>, charged by cable and satellite companies to prevent customers from quitting: &#8220;Consumers are tired of these junk fees,&#8221; FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said. Providers must also provide prorated refunds for services not used after cancellation.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"224\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/download-2.png?resize=225%2C224&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/download-2.png?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/download-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;They now have more choices when it comes to video content but these friction-filled tactics to keep us subscribing to our current providers are aggravating and unfair,&#8221; said Rosenworcel. &#8220;So, today we kick out a rulemaking to put an end to these practices.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/recapd.com\/w-UeqR0B\/86a21480582e5cf4a68cc1e6924e9c\/?\">the transcript of the meeting<\/a>, the two Republicans voted against the ban, which was passed by three Democrats. I understand the tendency toward partisan splits but voting to allow junk fees like this is funny. There&#8217;s no reason whatsoever to do it unless you work for the regulated industry, directly or otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission&nbsp;voted yesterday to ban early termination fees, charged by cable and satellite companies to prevent customers from quitting: &#8220;Consumers are tired of these junk fees,&#8221; FCC Chairwoman&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[7022],"class_list":["post-40059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-fcc-votes-to-ban-termination-fees-for-quitting-cable-and-satellite-services"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}