The only time the RBOCs and Cable Agree

At The Cable Show in Vegas, the lobby group for MSO's publicized its plan for regulatory reform. The plan in short: "Leave us alone!" [source] Wow! This is the first time that cable and telco agree, since the Brand-X ruling. "All regs would sunset in 5 years," proclaimed NCTA president Kyle McSlarrow. [source] In some ways I agree. The FCC has been totally ineffective in every area - media ownership, spectrum, competition, broadband, and regulation. It seems at times if they don't even WANT to regulate (take the Iowa blocking case). So why spend the $300M per year to have them? So they can allow mega-mergers, but not smaller ones (att-bst but not mci-sprint; vz-mci but not dtv-dish). Or so they can sell away all spectrum to the Big 5? It's ridiculous. But then so is much of what goes on in DC.