At roughly the same time as Verizon Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg was speaking at SuperComm, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association was launching its own regulatory broadside via a speech by President & CEO Kyle McSlarrow and a white paper outlining how the cable industry would like to see IP video handled. (This is all playing out against the backdrop of a review of the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
Speaking at the Washington Metropolitan Cable Club today, McSlarrow urged minimal economic regulation; regulation to ensure social responsibilities like E-911 are treated as must-haves; and, the real mantra in today’s environment, like services should be treated alike, and everyone should play by the same rules.
NCTA proposes:
– moving video services to “a federal framework with uniform national rules. This is simply not an area where each state should develop its own policy.”
– “a comprehensive re-examination of the existing regulatory framework adopted 21 years ago when the video marketplace was far less competitive.”
– regardless of how video is delivered, “facilities-based providers” should meet certain obligations including making “service available to all residents, regardless of income” (ie no redlining); channel controls, local information needs; copyright protection, etc.
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