Granting CableCARD waiver requests from Adams Cable Equipment and Baja...
Granting CableCARD waiver requests from Adams Cable Equipment and Baja Broadband would “avoid economic and environmental waste” by allowing used integrated-security cable set-top boxes to be redeployed, give customers the option to buy lost-cost set-top boxes at retail, and allow…
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Baja Broadband to manage subscriber demand for digital cable services until more FCC-compliant digital terminal adapters (DTAs) become available later this year, a lawyer for both companies said in an ex parte letter to the commission (http://xrl.us/bmzmj5). Consumers would be better off with a grant of the requested waivers, a fact that recent CEA pleadings in the proceedings distract from, the letter said. “CEA seems to be arguing that the Commission turn a blind eye to the facts (the high cost of CableCARD devices and the short supply of DTAs), and that it should only seek to address CEA’s wish list for the future (AllVid) while completely ignoring actual consumer needs and problems of the present,” the letter said.