CEA’s latest opposition to Charter’s CableCARD waiver request (CD March 12...
CEA’s latest opposition to Charter’s CableCARD waiver request (CD March 12 p15) “tries to re-write history,” the cable operator said in a filing Wednesday in FCC docket 12-328 (http://bit.ly/Z27s9u). CEA said Charter shouldn’t get leeway to use downloadable security for…
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set-tops instead of the cards which separate security from navigation. CEA had said a 2007 waiver to Cablevision that was renewed two years later didn’t give approval similar to what Charter wants. Not so, said Charter. “Without Cablevision’s new promise of downloadable security (which was unrelated to its prior waiver), that ‘extension’ plainly would not have been granted.” CEA’s “puzzling assertion” that the Cablevision and Charter cases are different “is betrayed by the fact that it made exactly the same unsuccessful arguments in Cablevision’s case,” the new filing said. “Four years after Cablevision’s waiver, CEA cannot find any evidence whatsoever that such waiver has reduced consumer adoption of retail devices or Cablevision’s support for CableCARDs."