GAO Report: FCC Should Do Fewer Cable and Video Reports

Price and competition annual reports not needed

Apparently the reports on the cable industry and video marketplace the Federal Communications Commission is required periodically to conduct are a giant time suck and resource hog. That was the overall conclusion of a report on competition in the video marketplace prepared for the FCC by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. 

After surveying the video distribution marketplace in 38 pages, the GAO concluded that an annual study of the marketplace is a waste of time, mostly because the GAO found little change year to year.

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