Mediacom rebuffed TVFreedom’s concerns (http://bit.ly/1scwQyl) about pay-TV billing...

Mediacom rebuffed TVFreedom’s concerns (http://bit.ly/1scwQyl) about pay-TV billing and business practices. The cable company sent a letter to House Commerce Committee leadership Thursday arguing that TVFreedom, a coalition of broadcaster interests including NAB, got its facts wrong. “Cable companies’ prices and policies are easily discoverable,” Mediacom said. “Content owners, on the other hand, hide their ‘wholesale’ prices and practices that have been the biggest single cause of the increases in pay TV subscription rates during the past decade.” Mediacom advocated getting such pricing information from programmers instead. “Only in Washington can pay-TV’s army of lobbyists and lawyers ignore two decades of FCC data showing geometric rate increases that far outpace the rate of inflation,” a TVFreedom spokesman said Friday of the letter, lamenting the “double-speak” of the “pay-TV cabal” that’s “aimed at diverting consumers away from real pocketbook issues of rising cable rates and ghost charges.”