The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a proposal Tuesday to ban cable and satellite television early termination fees. In a press release, the FCC said these fees may limit consumer…
Sometimes these fees could cost as much as an entire billing session even if you hadn't used it for that long of a period of time, (in the u.s)
It's pretty common in a lot of cities for apartment complexes to have deals with cable/internet providers that require residents to sign up for cable TV if they want internet service, so a surprising amount of people still have cable these days, even if they don't actually watch it. My apartment forced us into getting cable service with Spectrum so that we could have internet, and we never even bothered to pick up the cable boxes because neither I nor my roommate watch live TV ever, but we still have to pay for it, anyway.