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CWA called for full FCC audit of AT&T Broadband’s cable franchise...

CWA called for full FCC audit of AT&T Broadband’s cable franchises for alleged violations of agency’s public disclosure rules. Union said it found in preliminary survey of dozen AT&T franchise locations that company management had refused public access to…

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records; didn’t make files available to public; maintained incomplete and outdated information. CWA told FCC that “especially troubling is the failure of AT&T franchises to maintain complete signal leakage logs and proof-of-performance records” that would demonstrate compliance with Commission’s technical standards for cable operators. Audit is needed to ensure compliance with those rules and technical standards, it said. Union said Commission also should levy financial penalty “commensurate with the record of violation of these rules.”