Boxee CEO Avner Ronen urged FCC officials to make sure...
Boxee CEO Avner Ronen urged FCC officials to make sure a “comparable successor to ClearQAM” and a hardware-free long-term solution for third-party devices is incorporated into any order allowing digital cable systems to encrypt their basic service tier, en ex…
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parte notice shows (http://xrl.us/bnjndq. Ronen spoke with Deputy Media Bureau Chief Michelle Carey and aides to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski during one call and with several Media Bureau officials and an attorney from the Office of General Counsel on another. If the FCC adopts an order that reflects the commitments the six largest cable operators made in the proceeding (CD July 26 p13), it should make it clear that the order is meant to give consumers access to encrypted basic tier on non-operator provided devices, the notice said. It also expressed the hope that “should consumers or third-party device makers notify the commission that the options adopted by the operators subject to the order do not reasonably achieve that goal, the Commission will promptly consider taking action in response to such notice,” it said.