WHEREAS, Cox Cable is the fifth largest cable provider in the country with 6.2 million customers; and

WHEREAS, In Rhode Island, Cox Cable has 297,000 customers, about ninety-six percent (96%) of all cable subscribers in the state; and

WHEREAS, Cox Cable can indiscriminately raise their rates, and, in fact, have recently passed a fifteen percent (15%) increase to their customers in selected areas of the state; now, therefore be it

RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations hereby memorializes Congress to enact legislation which gives authority to individual states to regulate the cable industry; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and he hereby is authorized and directed to transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to the entire Rhode Island Congressional Delegation to the Congress of the United States.