Sununu Preparing Bill on FCC Tech Mandates

SUNUNU PREPARING BILL ON FCC TECH MANDATES
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]
Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) is preparing legislation that would ban the Federal Communications Commission from imposing technology mandates on media and telecommunications companies under the agency's jurisdiction. Sen Sununu, who didn't say when he would unveil the bill, said in a prepared statement Monday that it would mirror an amendment he placed in a Senate telecommunications bill that died last year over the scope of regulatory protections for Google, Yahoo! and eBay in the face of discriminatory conduct by providers of high-speed-Internet access, such as cable and phone companies. In the statement, Sen Sununu didn't say whether his legislation would stop the FCC from ordering cable companies to rely on the CableCARD in all newly issued set-top boxes after July 1. He did say that the ban would apply to the broadcast flag, an anti-piracy technology for over-the-air digital television. A federal court struck down the FCC's broadcast-flag rules.
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