McSlarrow: Martin’s Cable-Price Data Are Inaccurate

MCSLARROW: MARTIN'S CABLE PRICE DATA ARE INACCURATE
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
As promised, National Cable & Telecommunications Association President Kyle McSlarrow sent a letter to the ranking members of the House Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee explaining why he thinks Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is using inadequate cable-price data to create a picture that is incomplete and inaccurate. Yes, cable rates have risen, McSlarrow, said, but the value of cable service has increased even more, and it now includes phone-service competition that can save consumers billions of dollars.
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NCTA'S MCSLARROW CALLS MARTIN TESTIMONY 'DECEPTIVE, FALSE'
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]
If Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin was looking to provoke another feud with the cable industry, he succeeded. National Cable & Telecommunications Association president Kyle McSlarrow released a scathing letter last Friday that accused Martin of providing “deceptive and false” statements regarding cable rates in Feb. 13 testimony before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunication and the Internet Subcommittee. “Your subcommittee deserves, and should expect, the leader of any expert agency to provide you with accurate and complete information,” McSlarrow said at the top of a two-and-a-half page letter to subcommittee chairman Edward Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL). McSlarrow’s letter ­ designed to shred the truth, logic and fairness of Martin’s claims ­ went about as far as anyone can in polite Washington D.C. society without the word "liar."
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