The FCC should soon have enough information on the market for vid...
The FCC should soon have enough information on the market for video plug-and-play devices to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) instead of the notice of inquiry (NOI) sought by the NCTA (CD Dec 7 p7), a CEA…
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official said. “We don’t agree that this first needs to go to an NOI,” CEA Vice President Jamie Hedlund told us Monday. “The commission should be able to move quickly to a NPRM.” After collecting comments, due Dec. 21, on a public notice about the market, the commission will have enough information in the record to “work with in fashioning tentative rules,” he said. “It really is in cable’s interest to move quickly, because consumers are going to move without cable. They are snapping up Internet-connected devices like the Roku [digital player] … and bypassing cable. And if cable delays long enough, consumers will continue this nascent trend of cutting the cord altogether.” Meanwhile, a lawyer with broadcast clients criticized the FCC’s video-device and spectrum notices. “There seems to be a rush to judgment,” David Oxenford of Davis Wright wrote Sunday on the law firm’s blog. The commission is asking “pointed questions where it is suggested that answers have already been reached, and giving interested parties such a short time frame to answer such fundamental questions that the Commission cannot possibly expect searching, detailed responses,” he said.