The FCC extended an operator’s CableCARD waiver—with conditions. Baja...
The FCC extended an operator’s CableCARD waiver -- with conditions. Baja Broadband can keep deploying set-top boxes with combined security and navigation functions, a Media Bureau order said (http://xrl.us/bnbaub). It said the cable company must order digital transport adapters --…
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cheap set-tops lacking DVRs and interactivity -- and can only purchase and give to customers non-compliant devices until it gets the DTAs. “Baja has demonstrated extraordinary financial hardship and indicates that it is unable to obtain one-way set-top boxes without recording capability,” said the order signed by bureau Chief Bill Lake. CEA opposed “additional waivers of the integration ban due to DTA shortages as a matter of principle,” he wrote, “but no party specifically argued the facts of Baja’s request or filed a formal opposition.” The small Western U.S. cable operator originally has gotten waivers that were extended (CD March 5/10 p14) and in March it requested more time.