NCTA officials asked the FCC not to impose proof-of-performance...
NCTA officials asked the FCC not to impose proof-of-performance testing on digital cable, in an ex parte letter filed with the commission last week (http://bit.ly/15BCsTC). “Instead, consistent with FCC precedent in other areas, operators should be permitted to certify that…
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they are in compliance with the digital technical standards, and test only in response to a complaint,” NCTA said. The association said there’s “no evidence of a problem warranting semi-annual proof-of-performance testing for digital signals” and that technical differences between digital cable and analog cable and operator safeguards mean that there’s no reason for “costly, burdensome and unnecessary prophylactic digital testing."