NCTA: Almost 14 Million CableCards Deployed Since July 2007

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association reports to the Federal Communications Commission that nearly 14 million CableCARDS have been deployed -- either as add-ons or in set-tops -- in the past 21 months. That is the period since July 1, 2007, when the FCC, over the industry's objections, started requiring operators to separate out the security and channel surfing functions in the operator-supplied cable boxes, saying it was trying to promote a retail market for the boxes. The FCC requires operators to file status reports on that effort and NCTA has been compiling numbers from the top operators and filing it in a single update.