FCC OKs LFA Further NPRM Before Wednesday Meeting
FCC commissioners approved the local franchise authority Further NPRM that was to be on Wednesday's meeting agenda (see 1809050056), the agency said Tuesday, deleting the item from the agenda. Commissioner Mike O'Rielly said that after last year's 6th U.S. Circuit…
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Court of Appeals remand of the FCC ruling that local franchise authorities can't use cable franchising authority to regulate cable operators' mixed-use networks (see 1707120031), the NPRM looks to prevent franchise authority overreach. Otherwise, he said, "it’s hard to see any boundaries to the meddling of franchise authorities, creating the perverse circumstance in which such non-cable services could be regulated by multiple governmental layers, generating confusing and conflicting obligations." NCTA said the unanimous NPRM approval properly seeks to reinstate "clear limits on franchising authorities' ability to impose undue and unwarranted regulations and fees."