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Eighth-floor visits picked up again in the FCC’s basic tier...

Eighth-floor visits picked up again in the FCC’s basic tier encryption proceeding after about a month-long lull, ex parte notices show. Lawyers for Comcast and Boxee each met with aides to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Media Bureau Chief Bill…

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Lake this week. Boxee presented a way for cable operators to deliver a comparable alternative to Clear QAM, should cable operators be allowed to encrypt basic tier programming, the notice said (http://xrl.us/bm52gw). Comcast attorneys discussed “various ways in which consumers with QAM devices can access basic tier channels and responded” to some arguments raised by Boxee and others in the proceeding, an ex parte notice said (http://xrl.us/bm52hp).