Mercatus Center Urges FCC to Act on OTARD Revisions
Mercatus Center officials met an aide to Commissioner Brendan Carr on proposed changes to FCC rules for over-the-air reception devices, on which the agency took comment last year (see 1906180047). “The prospect of municipal and [homeowner association] restrictions on the…
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placement of FCC-approved antennas on residential property often hamper[s] the deployment of interstate communications services,” Mercatus said in docket 19-71, posted Thursday: “The existing rules account for some of the success of TV competition in the United States” but “the FCC’s Sec. 303 authority over antenna placement should not be limited to video services, as some parties have argued.”