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IPTV and Consumer Choice

It is the same story but CT is now the playing field Telecom Front Groups IPTV.
including a Detailed Report

Throughout the entire time-line of public discourse about U-verse, which includes both regulatory & court proceedings, at&t has funded a marketing campaign that presents itself as a consumer choice organization (MoreConsumerChoice.org and wewantchoice.com). at&t is currently running the TV4US campaign with pro at&t letter being auto-generation to DPUC. This campaign strategically locates TV4US ADs near articles on the U-verse debate. (Such Ads have appeared in web version of NH Register, Record-Journal, Hartford Courant.) This is polluting the information integrity associated with this market competition issue.
The issue is about profit, not about consumer price. It is rooted in the tax and regulatory differences between providers of telephone, TV and Internet. All corporations prefer being Internet providers because they avoid paying for rights-of-way and requirements for universal service. The marketing and legal fees for this ‘Internet provider campaign’ disguised as ‘for the people’ has been massive.

In the Press: Hartford Business Journal 10.1.07 10.15.17 10.22.07

History of U-Verse

Now that at&t video franchise application is again 'in process' consumer advocates need to help determine how PUBLIC ACT 07-253 is interpreted in regulation:

Aug 16, 2005 – "IPTV works fine in the lab, where conditions are pristine. But throw IPTV into a live, working network with millions of paying customers, and all bets are off. Indeed, nobody knows how IPTV will behave once it is "scaled," or rolled out, to millions of paying customers. One of the largest IPTV installations in the world is in China, and that one has only about 500,000 customers. "Scaling is clearly an issue," says Jeff Weber, an SBC vice president in charge of IPTV. "And anybody who tells you otherwise isn't just dumb — they're lying." Scaling isn't the only issue, however. SBC also has to build numerous support systems — provisioning, customer service and billing, for instance. In addition, it has to train installation crews to deal with IPTV's many nuances. Source

INFORMAL RENEWAL REQUEST: Docket 07-08-16 [CACSCC Comments]

Comcast notes that it routinely incurs substantial costs in the renewal and transfer processes. By passage of Public Act 07-253, An Act Concerning Certified Competitive Video Service, Comcast states that the Connecticut legislature has recognized that the costs of renewal and transfer are no longer appropriate in a competitive environment. Accordingly, Comcast believes that a renewal proposal that includes similar regulatory relief meets the franchise renewal standards of state and federal law and requests that the renewal Franchises contain the following provisions. Lastly, Comcast requests that the Department issue a Decision in for all in process renewals no later than October 26, 2007.

Absent a conclusion and after requesting the comment period be delayed until 12.5.07 Comcast submitted new franchise applications for all franchise across the state most likely anticipating the same 'no review' approval afforded the competititor. Sample application filed 12.3.07 for Comcast Branford.

Open for comments

AN ACT CONCERNING CERTIFIED COMPETITIVE VIDEO SERVICE

Public ACT No. 07-253 mean what to Community Access and customers access to television products. See Bill Summary For Download: COMPREHENSIVE Q+A GUIDE TO PUBLIC ACT 07-253

General Assemply Yearend Summary of ACT

From the Desk of the cable competiton
Supporting PEG ATT Perspective
Policy Position and The Technical View of Video Provider

Effective Oct 1st 2007 (b) A certified competitive video service provider and a community antenna television company or nonprofit organization providing community access operations shall engage in good faith negotiation regarding interconnection of community access operations where such interconnection is technically feasible or necessary. Interconnection may be accomplished by direct cable, microwave link, satellite or other reasonable method of connection. At the request of a competitive video service provider, community antenna television company or provider of community access operations, the Department of Public Utility Control -- > Docket 07-05-23 request for comment, the DPUC has stated its intention to examine the parameters of AT&T’s funding obligation to Community Access Television in Connecticut-decision status: draft. cacscc comments1--.comment2 -- OCC --NECTA --Comcast An additional Docket 07-10-11 to Establish Administrative Guidelines for the Public Educational and Governmental Programming and Education Technology Investment Account Pursuant to Public Act 07-253 was opened 10.5.07. and ATT filed an application fo be an MVPD Provider 10.1.07 which is being handled via Docket 7-10-04 - Application of The Southern New England Telephone Company for Certificate of Video Franchise Authority

Perspective

This discussion is not new. March 6,1995 (over a decade of competition chat) VDT is the name for phone companies' systems of offering competition to cable television by sending video programming over the telephone wires...we need to set fair rules of real competition for new entrants, like telephone companies competing against cable companies in video and cable companies competing against telephone companies in local telephone.
SPEECH BY
REED E. HUNDT
CHAIRMAN, FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


DPUC Ruling 10.15.07
Superior Court 10.31.07
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