NCTA: Marketplace Doesn't Need Old Regulations

In a filing at the Federal Communications Commission, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association argues that data from 2010 just adds to the growing body of evidence that the multichannel video marketplace is increasingly competitive and that any regulations adopted when it was otherwise -- as in the 1992 Cable Act -- now need to be shown the door, as it were. Program access, program carriage, and leased access rules are unnecessary. It also argues that the remaining basic-tier rate regulation should go the way of the rest of the rate regulations, which were scrapped in the 1996 Communications Act.