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TVfreedom.org urged the pay-TV industry to stop “superfluous”...

TVfreedom.org urged the pay-TV industry to stop “superfluous” price increases. It also asked pay-TV providers to offer consumers more flexibility on multiyear contracts, and give consumers “assurances that their monthly bills won’t continue to increase at four times the rate…

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of inflation, year after year,” a spokesman said Monday in a blog post (http://bit.ly/1j7Ml6h). The record profits in the cable industry are derived “directly from the average consumer’s wallet,” he said. With few viable alternatives, most subscribers, “who are locked in to service contracts, feel like they have little choice but to pay the hefty monthly pay-TV bills that continue to go up,” he said.