Assess Regulatory Fees on DBS Providers, ACA Says
The FCC should create a new fee category for multichannel video programming distributors, the American Cable Association said in a ex parte notice Friday in docket 13-140. Cable operators and IPTV providers shouldn’t be the only MVPDs supporting the Media…
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Bureau’s MVPD regulatory activities through fees, ACA said. The commission should assess regulatory fees on direct broadcast satellite providers the same way it assess fees for cable and IPTV providers, ACA said. The commission could add DBS to the cable/IPTV fee category, as it added IPTV to the cable-TV category in its 2013 regulatory fees order, ACA said. "The FCC should reject cable's latest proposal to raise satellite fees, just as it did the last five times cable proposed it," DirecTV said in a statement Friday. "The dominant cable providers require more regulation by virtue of their size and broadband offering and since regulatory fees are supposed to recover the costs of regulation, there's no reason for the FCC to revisit the current fee structure." Dish Network didn’t comment.