| 21. | Cable rates would be deregulated, and media companies could enlarge their holdings more easily.
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| 22. | Congress went too far in regulating cable rates in 1992.
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| 23. | Johnson said the cable rate increases is in line with other consumer price increases.
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| 24. | In addition, senators rejected Democrats'proposals to temper the cable rate deregulation provisions in the bill.
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| 25. | Over the past year, cable rates have been rising at a pace four times inflation.
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| 26. | But they said that even this does not justify a wholesale increase in cable rates.
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| 27. | Satellite operators have put pressure on the cable rates in the markets where they compete.
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| 28. | But now, unlike in the 1980s, consumers may have little recourse to mushrooming cable rates.
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| 29. | The earlier version deregulated cable rates only when a certain level of competition was achieved.
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| 30. | For consumers, it could mean price competition at a time when cable rates are skyrocketing.
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