”The FCC’s decision provides an outlet for integrated...
"The FCC’s decision provides an outlet for integrated boxes that were stranded by the integration ban when the Bureau ruled in June 2007 that cable operators could not treat refurbished set-top boxes as new,” said Davis Wright attorney Paul Hudson,…
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who represented ACE. The client, Adams Cable Equipment, on Friday got a Media Bureau waiver of some CableCARD rules (CD July 30 p11). The company may one day ask the commission to lift the 50,000-box restriction on the waiver, he said. “If 50,000 of these boxes would be good for consumers, then 200,000 refurbished boxes would be that much better.” There’s “no risk of refurbished boxes undermining the cable industry’s common reliance on CableCARDs now that they have deployed 40 million CableCARD devices,” Hudson said. The bureau’s public notice referenced previous CEA concerns that a waiver for ACE could undermine the commission’s CableCARD rules. CEA didn’t comment on the waiver being granted.