The latest CableCARD waiver request sent to the FCC has a twist. ...
The latest CableCARD waiver request sent to the FCC has a twist. Guiness Communications said it needs a waiver of the July 2007 set-top box navigation and integration ban because its customers live on an island connected to Canada,…
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where CableCARDs aren’t available. Guiness has 750 customers in Pt. Roberts, Wash., located on a peninsula not connected to the continental U.S., it said. A waiver wouldn’t affect the U.S. CE market because Guiness customers buy most electronics in Canada, the company’s Mon. filing said: “CableCARD devices are typically not sold in Canadian stores.” Other recent CableCARD waivers have made similar requests (CD May 1 p7). In April 8th floor visits, cable operators lobbied for waivers, said ex parte filings from the American Cable Assn. (ACA). Officials from ACA, Armstrong Cable, Mediacom and Wave met about waivers with Comrs. Adelstein and Tate and an aide to Comr. McDowell, also asking the FCC to place curbs on Liberty Media’s deal to get a controlling stake in DirecTV from News Corp. “The Commission should use the Hughes/News Corp. conditions as a model” for the pending deal, ACA said, “expanding and adjusting those conditions to remedy gaps and loopholes in the model that have become evident over the past 3 years” since News Corp. acquired the DirecTV stake from General Motors.