Comptel, ITTA and NTCA Press for Senate Commerce Committee Video Hearing
Comptel, ITTA and NTCA want the Senate Commerce Committee to hold a video marketplace hearing, they told Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., in a letter dated Monday. “Congress has tackled many pressing issues in recent months, but access to and…
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the high cost of video content continue to be important aspects of our broader national policy debate over how best to drive broadband deployment and adoption,” the groups told Thune. “Network operators’ ability to deliver video and broadband services, however, is hampered by outdated laws and rules that make the business case increasingly difficult, especially for smaller and new entrant video providers. For example, the retransmission consent regime is more than twenty years old and reflects an era with very different marketplace realities.” Industry lobbyists have long heard rumors of a possible Senate Commerce Committee video policy hearing, initially a possibility rumored for June and then potentially on deck for July. Thune has outlined a desire to tackle video policy later this year but dismissed the idea that any hearing was imminent when asked June 11. “On video?” Thune told us then of such a hearing. “No, no.”