Localities Talk Cable LFA Concerns With Gomez, Starks
Cable operators have been trying to confuse local governments about their obligations, and the FCC hasn't addressed the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' 2021 decision on the agency's 2019 local cable franchise authority order (see 2105260035), localities told Commissioners…
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Anna Gomez and Geoffrey Starks, per a docket 22-69 filing Friday. The NATOA, National League of Cities, U.S. Conference of Mayors and National Association of Counties representatives urged the FCC to implement the court ruling that cable operators charging local governments for franchise obligations need to do so at marginal costs and clarify that local governments should be required to pay the marginal cost of only their use of institutional data networks and not for cable system deployment to serve small businesses and other nonresidential consumers that use institutional networks. The localities also urged repeal of the FCC's mixed use rule, saying the 6th Circuit "found it does not correctly state the law." The localities also said they backed the agency's pending digital discrimination proposals and said local elected officials should have better means for updating the national broadband map to use it to monitor the state of digital discrimination.