Reply comments filed by Charter and Beyond Broadband Technology (BBT)...
Reply comments filed by Charter and Beyond Broadband Technology (BBT) “amplify rather than refute” concerns raised by CEA that granting Charter a waiver of CableCARD rules so it can develop and deploy a downloadable security system would “eviscerate” FCC CableCARD…
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rules and offer consumers no benefits, CEA said in an ex parte letter filed last week. “Like BBT, Charter invites other MSOs to conform to its own preferred chip and technology, but cannot predict that a single other MSO will do so,” CEA said (http://xrl.us/bn6i2k). “Charter and BBT effectively admit that they are asking for a Bureau-level action to allow any system ... to opt out of common reliance by moving from an integrated security to a ‘downloadable’ integrated security,” it said. “This would not be permissible even for a Commission-level action by waiver grant rather than by rule,” it said.