A new survey of the country's top pay-TV providers shows that about 99 percent of US customers rent set-top boxes directly from their providers and pay an average of $231.82 a year in rental fees.
Customers "spend, on average, $89.16 a year renting a single set-top box," or $7.43 a month. But the full price paid by the average household is much higher because "the average number of set-top boxes leased to a household is approximately 2.6," US Senators Edward Markey (D-MA.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said in a press release announcing the results of the survey.
The senators sent questions about set-top boxes to providers last November and today released a summary of the results and the companies' responses, though parts of the responses were not made public "because of competitive sensitivity." The providers who responded were AT&T, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Dish, DirecTV, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon.
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