Retail Cable Cards down 3,000 this quarter.
Total retail cable cards issued as of today is 617,000, a drop of 3,000 from the previous quarter....
MSO's have 53,000,000 cable cards in service.
<< In its Second Report and Order in CS Docket No. 97-80,1 the Commission directed certain cable operators to file periodically with the Commission “reports detailing CableCARD deployment and support.” The Commission noted that the “cable operators may file separate reports or a joint report.” As a matter of convenience, NCTA has compiled the individual company reports and is submitting them as attachments to this letter. Should the Commission have questions about any of these reports, please contact me and I will ensure that the questions are forwarded to the appropriate person at the relevant company for a response.
CableCARD Deployment and Support. The five cable operators who are required to report today – Cablevision Systems, Charter Communications, Comcast Corporation, Cox Communications, and Time Warner Cable – have deployed approximately 586,000 CableCARDs for use in retail CableCARD-enabled devices. When the CableCARDs deployed by the next four largest incumbent cable operators are included, there have been over 617,000 CableCARDs deployed for use in retail devices by the nine largest incumbent cable operators. By contrast, those nine companies have more than 53,000,000 operator-supplied set-top boxes with CableCARDs currently deployed >>