The Supreme Court’s Aereo ruling lends further support to...
The Supreme Court’s Aereo ruling lends further support to the petition to declare AT&T’s offering of public, educational and government access channels on U-Verse inadequate, said the Alliance for Community Media in an ex parte filing posted Wednesday to dockets…
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including 09-13(http://bit.ly/1sXJKR5). The decision “lends further support to ACM’s position that AT&T’s U-verse video service is in fact a ‘cable service,'” it said. Therefore, AT&T is subject to Communications Act Title VI, which sets provisions for cable systems and franchise procedures, it said. ACM opposed AT&T’s stance that it provides a multichannel video service and not a cable service. U-Verse is “in fact engaging in one-way transmission of video programming to subscribers,” said ACM. It began to revisit arguments for its 2009 petition last month after AT&T announced its intent to buy DirecTV (CD June 6 p6).