National Cable & Telecommunications Association president Michael Powell opened the INTX 2016 show in Boston by accusing the FCC of a “relentless regulatory assault” on the industry. Powell cited FCC proposals to unlock set-tops and regulate broadband privacy and cable rates. FCC chairman Tom Wheeler dismissed the charges as a mere lobbying tactic, signaling “that he thought cable/broadband operators were in danger of standing in the way of progress in their pushback on proposals like set-top box unlocking and special access reforms and that those who do not want to change, or stand in the way of change, are destined to fail,” reports Broadcasting & Cable.