[opendtv] Re: US cable ruling stay sought while high court mulls
- From: "John Willkie" <jmwillkie@xxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 23:45:35 -0700
Since delay in implementing open access only works to the advantage of cable
companies, and since this is a fast-moving field, and delaying access would
disadvantage more than a few of the other parties, the odds of this stay
attempt succeeding is only slightly higher than the odds of the CEA having
gotten a stay of the FCC's decision requiring DTV tuners in DTV TV sets.
But, it's nice to hear that the cable firms are doing everything to keep
communications attorneys and their firms fully employed.
I've got an idea: why don't the cable companies make those "communication
services" into the "information services" that they claim to be? If they
had done that several years ago, they might have a leg to stand on. But,
cable companies are mere generic pipelines, relaying without delay the
content created by others.
John Willkie
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Subject: [opendtv] US cable ruling stay sought while high court mulls
US cable ruling stay sought while high court mulls
- Apr 6, 2004 05:08 PM (Reuters)
WASHINGTON, April 6 (Reuters) - Cable operators said on
Tuesday they were seeking to suspend a ruling that would
subject their Internet offerings to extensive regulation while
they take their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Last week a U.S. appeals court refused to reconsider its
decision that regulators mistakenly insulated cable companies
that offer high-speed Internet from regulations that could
force them to offer a choice of Internet providers.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit in San Francisco had ruled in October that the
Federal Communications Commission should have classified cable
broadband as a telecommunications service instead of an
information service.
On Tuesday, the National Cable & Telecommunications
Association and several cable operators asked the appeals court
to stay its decision, due to go into effect Wednesday, until
the high court decides if it will hear the appeal.
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