Satellite TV Bills to increase
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Censorship is about the message. The throttling is fraud, as they advertise high streaming rates to watch video on the Internet, yet then throttle the service before it gets to the consumer. That is fraud, not censorship.
Public Knowledge on STAVRA: Drop Set-Top Language Or Bill
Would Rather See Sunset of License than Integration Ban
Now that the election is over and the Lame Duck Congress can turn to passage of must-pass satellite television reauthorization legislation (STAVRA), Public Knowledge is turning to all 100 senators asking them to fix forget it.
The "fix" would be to either jettison the part of the bill, backed and pushed by cable operators, that would eliminate the FCC's requirement that the surfing and security functions of set-tops be integrated (with the CableCARD hardware solution). The goal was to spur a robust retail set-top market, which everybody agrees hasn't happened.
The bill reauthorizing the satellite compulsory license expires Dec. 31 if it is not renewed by then, and Public Knowledge is advising the Senators to let it expire unless the set-top provision is either jettisoned, or modified along the lines of an amendment pushed by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) in the Senate Commerce Committee. The bill has already passed out of committee with Markey agreeing not to introduce the amendment.
But he still wants it in the bill, as does Public Knowledge.
“Every U.S. senator should know that American consumers are watching them as they decide whether to maintain choice and competition in the set-top box marketplace," said Christopher Lewis, VP for government affairs for Public "Americans already have few choices for pay-TV offerings and face ever increasing prices on these services."
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Would Rather See Sunset of License than Integration Ban
Now that the election is over and the Lame Duck Congress can turn to passage of must-pass satellite television reauthorization legislation (STAVRA), Public Knowledge is turning to all 100 senators asking them to fix forget it.
The "fix" would be to either jettison the part of the bill, backed and pushed by cable operators, that would eliminate the FCC's requirement that the surfing and security functions of set-tops be integrated (with the CableCARD hardware solution). The goal was to spur a robust retail set-top market, which everybody agrees hasn't happened.
The bill reauthorizing the satellite compulsory license expires Dec. 31 if it is not renewed by then, and Public Knowledge is advising the Senators to let it expire unless the set-top provision is either jettisoned, or modified along the lines of an amendment pushed by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) in the Senate Commerce Committee. The bill has already passed out of committee with Markey agreeing not to introduce the amendment.
But he still wants it in the bill, as does Public Knowledge.
“Every U.S. senator should know that American consumers are watching them as they decide whether to maintain choice and competition in the set-top box marketplace," said Christopher Lewis, VP for government affairs for Public "Americans already have few choices for pay-TV offerings and face ever increasing prices on these services."
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