The FCC met today to discuss several items – among them, the fate of CableCARD technology. Here are the provisions adopted by the Commission specific to CableCARD devices. From today’s press release on “unleash(ing) video innovation and consumer choice,” the FCC is putting forth rules to: Ensure that retail devices have access to all video [...]
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Regulatory oversight is a very important check in our government system of checks and balances. However, that doesn’t mean it always works. Two cable industry milestones in the last week illustrate this point vividly. First, the NCTA reported that the largest US cablecos have now deployed more than 21 million set-tops with embedded CableCARDs. (via [...]
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The Federal Communications Commission held an open meeting today to discuss many of the proposals the agency put forth in the recently released National Broadband Plan. Although the video stream of the proceedings was choppy, I did manage to catch bits and pieces of the event. For each agenda item, spokespeople came forward to provide [...]
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It was only three years ago when the Seven-Oh-Seven deadline hit, and here we are examining the CableCARD mandate once again. The FCC is opening up a notice of proposed rule making in order to create new CableCARD policy. It didn’t go so swimmingly last time, so I thought it worth taking a look back [...]
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The FCC released its national broadband plan today, and the Web is buzzing with commentary and analysis. Motorola hasn’t put out any public comment on the plan yet, but I thought it would be worthwhile to publish a couple of excerpts from an earlier Motorola filing during the FCC information-gathering period. See below for two [...]
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