The FCC should reject NATOA’s proposal for revising cable TV rate...

The FCC should reject NATOA’s proposal for revising cable TV rate regulation, NCTA said in supplemental reply comments to a June 2002 rulemaking. NATOA’s proposal would “eliminate entirely or eviscerate” the FCC’s streamlined network upgrade rate rule, the comments said. This would prevent cable operators from recovering costs of upgrades in regulated basic tier service rates, NCTA said: NATOA’s proposal is “facially inconsistent with congressional policies implemented in the Commission’s rules and fundamentally unfair to cable operators who relied upon Commission rules and invested to upgrade their service offerings and to improve basic cable services,” the cable group said.