Consumer Action Opposes Nationwide Cable Effective Competition NPRM
Another group opposed an FCC rulemaking that proposed to give cable operators nationwide effective competition deregulation (see 1505060051) unless local franchise authorities (LFAs) demonstrate otherwise, saying that would "unfairly burden" LFAs. The group, Consumer Action, cited cable rate increases that…
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have outpaced inflation. It said the commission should at least "slow down and carefully consider how these rule changes could affect consumers." There's "no reason to rush through" the congressionally mandated proceeding to streamline the effective competition process for small cable operators, said the group in a filing posted Monday in docket 15-53. Agency and industry officials and the NPRM itself say the 2014 Satellite and Television Extension Localism Act Reauthorization Act requires the revamp of at least the small-operator effective competition rules by June 2 (see 1505070046).