Charter Communications is working with two vendors to...
Charter Communications is working with two vendors to develop lab demonstration systems for the downloadable conditional access security it’s using as an alternative to CableCARD, said the operator in a semi-annual report to the FCC (http://bit.ly/1nOcKpj). The reports were required…
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by the commission in the order granting Charter a waiver of the CableCARD rules to create downloadable security. Charter is also working with set-top box manufacturers and other companies to create equipment for the downloadable security system. The operator is also involved in what it calls “good faith negotiations” with a maker of consumer electronics to create a retail set-top box that will use the downloadable security -- another condition of Charter’s waiver. Charter has deployed 85,575 set-top boxes with integrated security, 4.72 million with CableCARDs and 46,878 retail CableCARDs, the report said.