NCTA Backs Basic Cable Rate Regulation Changes
If the FCC doesn't adopt the updated competitive benchmark proposal for basic cable tier rate regulation, at least simplify its approach for newly regulated or reregulated communities, NCTA asked the Media Bureau, per a docket 17-105 posting Tuesday. Letting cable…
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operators use as a starting point the unregulated rate in effect before the local franchising authority petitions for certification or recertification to regulate rates would be simple and easy to enforce, it said. NCTA backed the tentative conclusion in a 2018 Further NPRM about revising cable rate rules for basic tier regulation by LFAs (see 1810230037) that commercial customer rates remain unregulated. The association said allowing rate adjustments for changes in channel count is "unduly complicated," urging ending rules on charges for changes in service tiers.