NCTA: Inflation Far Outpacing Retail Price of Broadband

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2024 – The cost of living keeps rising the the U.S. but the cost of broadband is not to blame. That's the message recently delivered by NCTA – The Internet & Television Association – a trade group for major cable Internet Service Providers like Comcast and Charter.

In comments filed Tuesday with the Federal Communications Commission, NCTA noted that the price of broadband had risen far less sharply than the overall rate of inflation.

The association cited the 2024 Section 706 report which stated that prices for internet services declined by about 19 percent in inflation-adjusted terms between 2009 and 2023.