Technologie i telekomunikacja · 16/02/1995

Telephone Company-Cable Television Cross-Ownership Rules

The Commission adopted a Fourth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in Common Carrier Docket 87-266, with the intent of soliciting information and comment on the extent to which Title II of the Communications Act, Title VI, or both, apply to a telephone company's provision of video programming directly to subscribers within its telephone service area. The Commission also requested comment on what changes, if any, need to be made to the video dialtone regulatory framework if a telephone company decides to become a video programmer on its own video dialtone platform in its telephone service area, and in particular, whether telephone company provision of video programming raises new concerns about anticompetitive behavior or cross-subsidy that the Commission's existing regulatory framework may not sufficiently address.