NCTA Asks FCC to Prevent State, Local Duplicative Rules, Fees, Other Deployment 'Obstacles'
NCTA urged the FCC to act in two proceedings "to prevent state and local governments from imposing duplicative regulations and fees and other regulatory obstacles that have the effect of hindering the deployment of new facilities and services by cable…
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operators," said a filing Friday on meeting Matthew Berry, chief of staff, and Nick Degani, senior counsel to Chairman Ajit Pai. The group said the filing on the June 12 meeting was inadvertently submitted a day late. Docket 17-84 is on wireline infrastructure deployment and docket 05-311 on implementation of Communications Act Section 621(a)(1), and the filing was in both. NCTA and cable operators recently asked the FCC to affirm a mixed-use rule in light of a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in 2017 rejecting the agency's counting in-kind charges toward franchise fees (see 1804240020 and 1707120039).