The FCC should include mid-size cable operators in...
The FCC should include mid-size cable operators in the category of companies that will receive an extra two years to comply with proposed 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) rules for user interfaces and navigation guides, said the…
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American Cable Association in an ex parte letter filed Monday (http://bit.ly/151e27V). The proposed rule has a three-year compliance deadline for companies with more than 400,000 subscribers, and a five-year deadline for companies with fewer. However, ACA said the cutoff would leave three members under the earlier deadline: Mediacom, Cable One and WOW. Those companies “will be no more able to ensure compliance than their smaller brethren” because they don’t design their own hardware and software and depend on “the availability of commercial ‘off-the-shelf’ equipment to satisfy regulatory requirements,” said ACA. The “buying power” to influence hardware and software companies to construct components “rests almost exclusively with the largest operators,” said a Cable One ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/171Ads8). “Operators the size of Cable One [600,000 subscribers] simply have no ability to materially influence these schedules."