| | | Every morning the team at BI Intelligence delivers daily content covering key items business professionals need to be aware of to stay ahead. As a bonus for being a frequent reader of Business Insider, we're including some free content below. Want more content like this daily? Join our FREE BI Intelligence Daily newsletter by clicking here. Does the Cable Box Have New Life?  The FCC has had the intention to shake up the set-top box market, but it looks like Republican pressure has killed those plans.
On Wednesday, Republicans in Congress asked FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to not look at any contested policy issues until President-elect Trump, whose administration is expected to be far less receptive to telecom and cable industry regulation than the Obama administration, takes office.
The FCC complied later that day by removing all of the major items scheduled for its monthly Open Commission Meeting on Thursday.
Those items included votes on funding to expand mobile broadband networks, lowering price caps on small businesses reliant on telecom company special access lines, and requiring TV networks to expand the availability of audio descriptions for the blind.
Business Insider's Jeff Dunn has the full story.
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