RCN’s chairman asked his FCC counterpart to immediately grant the...
RCN’s chairman asked his FCC counterpart to immediately grant the cable operator’s waiver request to encrypt the basic-programming tier, so such scrambling can begin “immediately.” The petition “followed directly the waiver the Commission had granted to Cablevision,” an ex parte…
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filing said of Steven Simmons’ conversation with Julius Genachowski. RCN’s request, if granted, would be “a win/win for providers and consumers, allowing consumers to be freed from waiting for cable technicians when activating service and allowing providers remotely to activate and deactivate services,” the operator said. “Eliminating truck rolls also has environmental benefits, as well as reducing costs.” As a rival “to the larger cable and telephone companies, RCN has been pushing standalone broadband services strongly, but these services increase RCN’s exposure to signal theft,” the filing posted Thursday in docket 11-169 said. The company has “been waiting for nearly a year for a response to its petition,” the filing said (http://xrl.us/bnfqtu). The operator’s expected to have to wait until the agency approves an industrywide order for all digital cable systems, which could circulate for a commissioner vote now that Comcast and Boxee have reached a deal on the Boxee Box getting encrypted basic-cable and broadcast channels (CD June 29 p8).