Granting Charter’s CableCARD waiver request would be a further “system...
Granting Charter’s CableCARD waiver request would be a further “system development away from CableCARDs at a time when the Commission has taken no steps ... to identify a successor common interface,” as required by statute, an attorney representing CEA told…
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aides to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Media Bureau officials, an ex parte notice shows (http://bit.ly/10GwiRo). Even if Charter continues to offer and support CableCARDs, “a waiver granted on the basis proffered by Charter would induce a flood of follow-on waivers on behalf of disparate systems, premised only on purported cost savings,” it said. The FCC promised in the National Broadband Plan, the basic tier encryption order and elsewhere to identify a successor to CableCARD, it said.