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Urging AT&T to explain why it announced it would raise its cable ...

Urging AT&T to explain why it announced it would raise its cable rates 4.8%, United Homeowners Assn. (UHA) said carrier’s control of cable systems serving more than half of nation’s cable consumers hadn’t benefitted consumers in terms of lower…

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prices and increased competition. UHA said another key concern was that AT&T had deployed vast majority of its cable high-speed Internet services in upper income neighborhoods. “Cherrypicking the marketplace” will further digital divide between consumers, it said. Noting that cable rates continue to outpace inflation, UHA said it was concerned that, unlike other telecom services such as local and long distance phone, cable rates keep increasing.