CEA slammed Charter Communications’ latest filing (http://bit.ly/Y5mfnW) on the company’s request...
CEA slammed Charter Communications’ latest filing (http://bit.ly/Y5mfnW) on the company’s request for a waiver (CD March 4 p12) of FCC rules requiring separation of cable set-top box security and navigation. The association and operator had been trading filings in docket…
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12-328 on the petition to begin deploying to subscribers set-tops with downloadable, software-based security and not the CableCARD hardware. Charter’s Feb. 28 filing “finally admits that its petition is based entirely on the premise that the FCC has somehow granted an advance exception from its rules, in favor of any nominally ‘downloadable’ security system,” CEA said in a filing in the docket Thursday (http://bit.ly/16mIfyb). It said “no amount of repetition and distortion, now, will change the record” that neither the FCC nor the Media Bureau gave “blanket, advance approval to a security system based on its containing a downloadable element, where that system has not been demonstrated to provide a common interface comparable to CableCARD’s.” CEA said the bureau never allowed Cablevision, which got a CableCARD grandfathered waiver and an extension, to start a “future ‘downloadable’ system."