{"id":5114,"date":"2006-12-20T16:53:50","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T16:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/fcc-on-cable-competition.html"},"modified":"2006-12-20T16:53:50","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T16:53:50","slug":"fcc-on-cable-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/broadband\/fcc-on-cable-competition.html","title":{"rendered":"FCC on Cable Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Greg&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.tmcnet.com\/news\/-fcc-cable-competition-\/2006\/12\/20\/2188472.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">update<\/font><\/a> on the FCC and cable competition is certainly worth a read. This FCC ruling is good news is for the phone companies as they will have a standard set of nationwide rules to adhere to instead of a hodgepodge of disparate ones.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>AT&amp;T&rsquo;s Senior Vice President of Federal Relations, Bob Quinn, issued the following comments today:<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&ldquo;The FCC has wisely determined that the pace of video competition and broadband deployment should not be held hostage to the administration of a franchising process created for monopoly cable providers.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&ldquo;We are heartened that the FCC, just as 9 states, has recognized that the existing local franchising process limits consumer choice and investments in broadband <a href=\"http:\/\/news.tmcnet.com\/news\/-fcc-cable-competition-\/2006\/12\/20\/2188472.htm##\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">infrastructure<\/a>. The FCC has taken steps towards streamlining the franchising process by establishing reasonable timeframes within which local franchising authorities administer their responsibilities<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg&rsquo;s update on the FCC and cable competition is certainly worth a read. This FCC ruling is good news is for the phone companies as they will have a standard set of nationwide rules to adhere to instead of a hodgepodge of disparate ones. &nbsp; AT&amp;T&rsquo;s Senior Vice President of Federal Relations, Bob Quinn, issued<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,218,189,190,191,175],"tags":[356,252,249],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}