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Charter continued to push the FCC to let it out...

Charter continued to push the FCC to let it out of some CableCARD requirements so it can begin deploying set-top boxes with downloadable security. In a seven-page letter to the FCC, Paul Glist, a Davis Wright partner who represents Charter…

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on the matter, again spelled out the operators’ case for the requested waiver (http://bit.ly/Xsh7cg). The waiver will “position Charter with a software-based security as content providers grow more comfortable with not insisting on a hardware root of trust,” the letter said. “It directs limited investment funds wisely towards the new chipsets, the new servers, and the software based security to build the new common reliance platform,” the letter said. Glist, plus a Charter executive and Justin Lilley of TeleMedia Policy Corp., met with Media Bureau and Office of General Counsel officials last week to discuss the letter, it said.