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FCC Should Issue Subpoena to Collect Special Access Data, Say Cable Companies

The FCC should issue a subpoena to collect the data it requests in its revised special access data collection order, representatives from cable companies and NCTA told staff from the Wireline Bureau and Office of General Counsel in a meeting…

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Nov. 24, said an ex parte filing by the association posted Friday in docket 05-25. Charter Communications, Cox Enterprises and Time Warner Cable sent representatives. They want the FCC to subpoena the data to protect the cable companies from running “afoul” of Communications Act privacy requirements protecting identification information, NCTA said. This will allow providers subject to Communications Act Section 631 "to comply with that section’s privacy requirements while providing the Commission with the full suite of information requested in the special access proceeding,” NCTA said.