Comcast's Roberts Lobbied Clyburn at INTX
CEO Brian Roberts and several Comcast executives spoke to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn on FCC set-top box and broadband privacy proposals during INTX 2016, said an ex parte filing posted Thursday in docket 16-42. Comcast Cable CEO Neil Smit and Comcast…
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Executive Vice President David Cohen were part of the discussion. Comcast has announced programs that will “expand the range of retail devices our customers can use to access Xfinity TV cable service without the need to lease a set-top,” it said. Multichannel video programming distributor "apps are providing retail device alternatives without any of the numerous harms that would result from the proposed set-top box mandate,” the cable ISP said. The FCC should pursue a broadband privacy policy that's similar to the FTC technology neutral privacy plan, the company said. The NPRM’s current proposal would create a situation where competing players in the Internet ecosystem are treated differently on privacy regulation and inexplicably would block ISPs from entering and competing as disrupters and upstarts in the online advertising market, Comcast said. At INTX, others from the cable industry and elsewhere criticized the set-top and privacy proceedings (see 1605160057, 1605170040 and 1605160033).