Industry Issues

FCC Filings - (additional IMCC Filings)

• IMCC Declaratory Ruling Letters:

  • Abandonment of Cable Inside Wiring
              - February 7, 2005
              - January 26, 2005

  • Use of Inside Wiring for Non-video Services

  • Cable Demarcation Point

  • Inside Wiring Rules/Other Services

  • Applicability of Inside Wiring Rules

  • FCC Responds to IMCC Court Puts Sheetrock/Drywall on Hold

• CS 95-184 - MDU Inside Wiring, Exclusive Contracts, Perpetual Contracts, and Mandatory Access Statutes.
   (FCC 97-304 [FNPRM - Aug 1997]) (FCC 97-376 [R&O- 2nd FNPRM - Oct 1997])

• CS 99-363 - Retransmission Consent Issues:  Good Faith Negotiation and Exclusivity (FCC 00-363 [1st R&O - Mar 14, 2000])

• CS 01-290 - Program Access
  (FCC 02-176 [R&O - June 13, 2002]) (FCC 01-290 [NPRM - October 18, 2001])

• IB 98-172; RM -9005; RM-9118; FCC 2-317 Second Order on Reconsideration 
  Redesignation of 17.7-19.7 GHz Frequency Band, Blanket Licensing of Satellite Earth Stations in the 17.2-20.2 GHz and 27.5-30.0 GHz Frequency Bands, and the Allocation of Additional Spectrum in the 17.3-17.8 GHz and 24.75-25.25 GHz Frequency Bands for Broadcast Satellite -Service Use

  IMCC Petition for Reconsideration and Emergency Request for Immediate Relief - Filed May 8, 2003

• IB 98-172 - 18 GHz - Redesignation of 17.9 - 19.7 GHz Frequency (FCC 00-212 - Jun 2000)

• MB 5-311 - FCC Initiates Rulemaking to Ensure Reasonable Franchising Process for New Video Market Entrants  - November 3, 2005

IMCC Reply Comments on Franchising -- Exclusive Contracts

• WT 99-217 - Competitive Networks in Local Telecommunications (FCC 00-366 - Oct 2000)

resource Information

• 18 GHz

• Broadband Task Force (BTF)

• Competitive Networks

•  Conversion from Analog to Digital

  • Transitioning Television Broadcasts from Analog to Digital (Sept. 2004)

  • Broadcast Television's Analog to Digital Transition (Dec. 2005)

• Emergency Alert System Rules (EAS)

• Entertainment Connections Inc. (ECI)

• Finding FCC Regulations

• HDTV

• Mandatory Access

• MDU Inside Wiring

• OTARD
  -  Antenna Restrictions in MDUs Under the OTARD Rules 
      an article by Carl E. Kandutsch, Ph.D., J.D.

• Program Access

• Questions and Answers to Help MDUs and PCOs Do Business

• Retransmission Consent

  • Howard Barr, Esq. of the Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice firm in Washington, DC.
  • Anne Walker, Principle of Castle Cable, California
  • Bill Dever, CEO of Spark Interactive, Indiana
    

• Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999 (SHIVA)

• Signal Leakage

• VOD - What's the Buzz?

• VoIP